- Microtomy/Instrumentation

Catalog description

This course covers the basic principles of microtomy applicable to both paraffin and frozen sections and techniques necessary to provide quality microscopic slides. There will be a focus on the varying types of microtomes, blades, water baths, slides, troubleshooting and different paraffin section cutting. This course is very lab centered as the student will learn to cut various types of tissue, learns ribboning, cutting different thicknesses, smoothing sections, cutting difficult tissue, cutting levels, recuts, controls and more. The student will become familiar with various instruments and their maintenance used in the day-to-day histology laboratory. Must be enrolled in the following Program: Histotechnology.