cryostat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English

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"For Jaumain[…]that long period of uncertainty began on 31 May 2010, when she stabbed her left thumb with a curved forceps while cleaning a cryostat—a machine that can cut tissues at very low temperatures—that she used to slice brain sections from transgenic mice infected with a sheep-adapted form of BSE."

Etymology tree Ancient Greek κρῠ́ος (krŭ́os)lbor. English cryo- English -stat English cryostat From cryo- + -stat.

cryostats (plural)

thermocryostat

cryostasis cryostatic cryocooler

Questions

What does cryostat mean?

A device used to maintain a constant low temperature.

Where does cryostat come from?

Etymology tree Ancient Greek κρῠ́ος (krŭ́os)lbor. English cryo- English -stat English cryostat From cryo- + -stat.

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