microsection

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ section

Noun

microsection (plural microsections)

  1. A very small section
    • 2015 July 2, Santiago Roura et al., “The role and potential of umbilical cord blood in an era of new therapies: a review”, in Stem Cell Research & Therapy‎, volume 6, →DOI:
      Representative images show a the fetal face of a placenta from which an umbilical cord grows as a flexible, spongy-looking, tube-like structure usually around 55 cm or 2 feet, b a transversal section of umbilical cord showing two arteries (A) and one vein (V), and c a Masson’s trichrome staining of a complete umbilical cord microsection.

Verb

microsection (third-person singular simple present microsections, present participle microsectioning, simple past and past participle microsectioned)

  1. To divide into small sections
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