hemocytometer
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From hemo- + cyto- + -meter.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌhiːmə(ʊ)saɪˈtɒmɪtə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌhimoʊsaɪˈtɑmɪtɚ/, /ˌhimə-/
- Hyphenation: he‧mo‧cy‧tom‧e‧ter
Noun
hemocytometer (plural hemocytometers)
- A device used to count the number of blood cells in a volume of blood.
- 1996, Joyce Carol Oates, “Snow after Easter”, in We Were the Mulvaneys, Plume, →ISBN, page 206:
- 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.”
- 2012 July 24, Ulla Nordström Joensen et al., “Phthalate Excretion Pattern and Testicular Function: A Study of 881 Healthy Danish Men”, in Environmental Health Perspectives, volume 120, number 10, , →PMID:
- Semen volume was assessed by weight, and sperm concentration was determined using a Bürker-Türk hemocytometer (Paul Marienfeld GmbH & Co. KG, Lauda-Königshofen, Germany).
- 2013 December, C. Q. Liu et al., “Study of Genetic Characteristics of In Vitro Culture and Intracellular Transduction of Exogenous Flurescent Proteins in Fibroblast Cell Line of Angora Goat”, in Journal of Animal & Plant Sciences, volume 26, number 3, →ISSN, page 1508:
- 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).