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MICROSCOPE STAND [3 records]

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Record 1 2011-06-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Games and Toys (General)
DEF

Plastic case containing a microscope with movable stand, 7 slides, 2 specimen bottles with magnifying lids and various accessories.

OBS

Micro Explorer Set™: A trademark of Fisher-Price (Hong Kong).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Jeux et jouets (Généralités)
DEF

Mallette en plastique contenant un microscope avec socle amovible, 7 plaques, 2 boîtes avec couvercles-loupes et différents accessoires.

OBS

Trousse d'exploration microscopiqueMC : Marque de commerce de la société Fisher-Price, Hong Kong.

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-03-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Instruments
  • Optical Instruments
CONT

The stand of the conventional compound microscope serves to hold the optical parts in alignment and to support the object. A sturdy base carries the rest of the instrument on an inclination joint. The body tube, with objectives on a revolving nosepiece at its lower end and either monocular or binocular eyepiece provision at its upper end, works on a rack-and-pinion coarse focusing adjustment which articulates it with the arm.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments scientifiques
  • Instruments d'optique
DEF

Pièce tournante des microscopes optiques, permettant de placer successivement dans l'axe optique des objectifs de grossissements différents.

CONT

La partie mécanique d'un microscope (statif et organes accessoires) doit constituer [...] un ensemble très solide [...] Elle comporte, sous sa forme «ancienne», un tube métallique, généralement vertical. Les objectifs sont fixés à la partie inférieure, les oculaires se posent à la partie supérieure. La substitution d'un objectif à un autre s'obtient par l'emploi d'une tourelle à revolver.

OBS

révolver : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

Key term(s)
  • tourelle porte-objectif
  • tourelle révolver
  • tourelle à révolver
  • révolver

Spanish

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Record 3 1995-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Surgical Equipment
OBS

Autoclavable eye holders and containers for corneosceral buttons and a vertical microscope stand are available for bank use.

OBS

A new system of microsurgery for human and experimental corneal grafting. I. the contact lens corneal cutter stereotaxic eye holder donor disc chuck, and frame.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement médico-chirurgical

Spanish

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