Meaning of hemocytometer | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.””

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

“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).”

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