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What is the best fixative for cytology?

95% ethyl alcohol (correct)

Formalin

Chloroform

Xylene

Which step involves immersing the specimen in increasing concentrations of alcohol to remove water and formalin from the tissue?

Clearing

Dehydration (correct)

Embedding

Fixation

What is used to remove alcohol and allow infiltration with paraffin wax during the clearing step?

Formalin

Benzene

Xylene (correct)

Chloroform

What is the aim of tissue fixation?

To keep cells and tissue components in a 'life-like state' Signup and view all the answers

What follows fixation in a fixative solution?

Embedding Signup and view all the answers

What is the best fixative for histopathology?

Formalin Signup and view all the answers

Which step involves immersing the specimen in increasing concentrations of alcohol to remove water and formalin from the tissue?

Dehydration Signup and view all the answers

What is used to remove alcohol and allow infiltration with paraffin wax during the clearing step?

Xylene Signup and view all the answers

What is the aim of tissue fixation?

To keep cells and tissue components in a 'life-like state' Signup and view all the answers

What follows fixation in a fixative solution?

Dehydration Signup and view all the answers

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What is the best fixative for cytology?

Which step involves immersing the specimen in increasing concentrations of alcohol to remove water and formalin from the tissue?

What is used to remove alcohol and allow infiltration with paraffin wax during the clearing step?

What is the aim of tissue fixation?

What follows fixation in a fixative solution?

What is the best fixative for histopathology?

Which step involves immersing the specimen in increasing concentrations of alcohol to remove water and formalin from the tissue?

What is used to remove alcohol and allow infiltration with paraffin wax during the clearing step?

What is the aim of tissue fixation?

What follows fixation in a fixative solution?

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Histology Slide Preparation

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Questions and Answers

What is the best fixative for cytology?

Which step involves immersing the specimen in increasing concentrations of alcohol to remove water and formalin from the tissue?

What is used to remove alcohol and allow infiltration with paraffin wax during the clearing step?

What is the aim of tissue fixation?

What follows fixation in a fixative solution?

What is the best fixative for histopathology?

Which step involves immersing the specimen in increasing concentrations of alcohol to remove water and formalin from the tissue?

What is used to remove alcohol and allow infiltration with paraffin wax during the clearing step?

What is the aim of tissue fixation?

What follows fixation in a fixative solution?

More Quizzes Like This

Histology 1 MCQ PART 2 Quiz

Histology I: Epithelial Tissue Quiz

Epithelial and Connective Tissue Quiz: Histology Practice

Histology &amp; Cell Biology: Epithelium I

Histology & Cell Biology: Epithelium I