Hemocytometer

Quick meaning: Hemocytometer is a noun meaning A device used to count the number of blood cells in a volume of blood.

Meaning

A device used to count the number of blood cells in a volume of blood.

Example Sentences

Cell viability before freezing or after recovery was determined using a hemocytometer to enumerate 1000 cells by Trypan Blue vital stain method (Qi et al., 2007).

Semen volume was assessed by weight, and sperm concentration was determined using a Bürker-Türk hemocytometer (Paul Marienfeld GmbH & Co. KG, Lauda-Königshofen, Germany).

And helping to record data of such exacting minuteness, Patrick felt, as he often felt in the midst of such experiments, which were essentially the counting of microbe cells with a high-tech hemocytometer, as if he were an intruder into a world that, if he descended into it for a split second, would devour him rapaciously, reducing him to mere chemicals and a throbbing current called “life.”

Word Forms

• hemocytometers
• hemacytometer

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include haematocytometer, erythrocytometer, hemocytometry, haematometer, hemacytometry, hemochromocytometer.

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