English

Noun

microsection ‎(plural microsections)

1. A very small section
   • 2015 July 2, Santiago Roura et al., “The role and potential of umbilical cord blood in an era of new therapies: a review”, in Stem Cell Research & Therapy, volume 6, DOI:10.1186/s13287-015-0113-2:

     Representative images show a the fetal face of a placenta from which an umbilical cord grows as a flexible, spongy-looking, tube-like structure usually around 55 cm or 2 feet, b a transversal section of umbilical cord showing two arteries (A) and one vein (V), and c a Masson’s trichrome staining of a complete umbilical cord microsection.