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Descriptor English: Paraffin Embedding
Descriptor Spanish: Adhesión en Parafina
Descriptor inclusión en parafina
Scope note: Infiltración de muestras de tejido con parafina, como sustancia de soporte, a fin de prepararlas para el corte con el microtomo.
Descriptor Portuguese: Inclusão em Parafina
Descriptor French: Inclusion en paraffine
Entry term(s): Embedding, Paraffin
Tree number(s): E01.370.225.500.620.760.440.610
E01.370.225.750.600.760.440.610
E05.200.500.620.760.440.610
E05.200.750.600.760.440.610
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D016612
Scope note: The infiltrating of tissue specimens with paraffin, as a supporting substance, to prepare for sectioning with a microtome.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MT methods
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Paraffin (1966-1991)
Public MeSH Note: 92
History Note: 92
DeCS ID: 29911
Unique ID: D016612
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Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1991/01/25
Revision Date: 2018/06/14
Paraffin Embedding - Preferred
Concept UI M0025331
Scope note The infiltrating of tissue specimens with paraffin, as a supporting substance, to prepare for sectioning with a microtome.
Preferred term Paraffin Embedding
Entry term(s) Embedding, Paraffin



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