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What is a celloidin?

What is a celloidin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) A semisolid solution of pyroxylin in ether and alcohol. Used to embed specimens for microscopy before they are sectioned and placed on slides.
  2. A specimen embedded in celloidin.
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To overcome this, the sections might also be embedded in celloidin.
Remove the solution of gelatine from the interior of the celloidin case with a pipette.
After a short time water begins to rise in the tube, having passed through the film of celloidin.
The temporal bones were fixed, decalcified, and embedded in celloidin.
Decalcification and celloidin embedding can seriously damage RNA, which might account for the negative results in McKenna et al's examinations.
They were fixed, decalcified and dehydrated according to a standard method and then embedded into celloidin.

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