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Descriptor English: Tissue Embedding
Descriptor Spanish: Adhesión del Tejido
Descriptor inclusión de tejidos
Scope note: Técnica de incluir células o tejidos en un medio de sustentación para que puedan cortarse finas secciones con el empleo de un microtomo. El medio puede ser parafina (INCLUSIÓN EN PARAFINA) o plásticos (INCLUSIÓN EN PLASTICO) como las resinas epoxi.
Descriptor Portuguese: Inclusão do Tecido
Descriptor French: Inclusion de tissu
Entry term(s): Embedding, Tissue
Tree number(s): E01.370.225.500.620.760.440
E01.370.225.750.600.760.440
E05.200.500.620.760.440
E05.200.750.600.760.440
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016610
Scope note: The technique of placing cells or tissue in a supporting medium so that thin sections can be cut using a microtome. The medium can be paraffin wax (PARAFFIN EMBEDDING) or plastics (PLASTIC EMBEDDING) such as epoxy resins.
Annotation: embedding of cells or tissue in a supporting medium
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MT methods
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Public MeSH Note: 92
History Note: 92
DeCS ID: 29777
Unique ID: D016610
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Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1991/01/25
Revision Date: 2018/06/14
Tissue Embedding - Preferred
Concept UI M0025330
Scope note The technique of placing cells or tissue in a supporting medium so that thin sections can be cut using a microtome. The medium can be paraffin wax (PARAFFIN EMBEDDING) or plastics (PLASTIC EMBEDDING) such as epoxy resins.
Preferred term Tissue Embedding
Entry term(s) Embedding, Tissue



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