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Definition of Cover glass
1. Noun. A small and very thin piece of glass used to cover the specimen on a microscope slide.
Generic synonyms: Plate Glass, Sheet Glass
Group relationships: Microscope Slide, Slide
Medical Definition of Cover glass
1. A thin glass disk or plate covering an object examined under the microscope. Synonym: coverslip. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cover Glass
Literary usage of Cover glass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"The charged cover-glass is then at once dropped, blood side downward, upon the
surface of the second glass (Fig. 23), with the result that the blood quickly ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"The more closely adherent the scale is to the cover-glass, the less red should
be the tint; ... Measuring Thickness of Cover-glass by Correction Collar. ..."
3. Animal Micrology: Practical Exercises in Zoölogical Micro-technique by Michael Frederic Guyer (1917)
"The vaseline makes the cover-glass stick to the slide and also prevents evaporation.
2. Place a small drop of the fluid containing bacteria in the center of ..."
4. The Microscope: An Introduction to Microscopic Methods and to Histology by Simon Henry Gage (1920)
"Measure the thickness of one of the pieces with the cover-glass measurer or in
... Measure the space between the top of the cover-glass and the objective ..."
5. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1894)
"Moisture on the cover glass.—The cause of a deposit of moisture on the under side
of the cover-glass must be sealing up before the object or the base on ..."
6. Clinical Rheumatology: A Problem-oriented Approach to Diagnosis and Management by Roland W. Moskowitz (1921)
"Obtain from the desk a cover-glass long enough to cover the entire section and
carefully clean both slide and cover-glass. On the center of the slide place ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"The drop obtained by one or other of these methods may be examined by simply
placing it on a slide and dropping a cover-glass on it. ..."
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