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| 1084.1 | Looks Greek to me... | STOHUB::SLBLUZ::BROCKUS | I'm the NRA! | Fri Jan 28 1994 12:24 | 7 |
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W7NCD:
tomography [Gk tomos section + ISV -graphy...]
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| 1084.2 | | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Sun Jan 30 1994 17:06 | 11 |
| G'day,
.... as evidenced in any Tom and Jerry cartoon when one or the other
gets sliced.....
;-)
derek
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| 1084.3 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | $ SET MIDNIGHT | Sun Jan 30 1994 19:42 | 1 |
| Or when politicians Jerrymander the taxpayers.
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| 1084.4 | Though I'm sure Norman knew it was G, not J... | NRSTA2::KALIKOW | | Sun Jan 30 1994 20:43 | 6 |
| Nit: That's Gerrymander, after a long-ago Massachusetts Governor,
Elbridge Gerry by name, whose weird concatenation of towns for some
self-serving electoral purpose was said to resemble some sort of
salamanderoid beast. If memory serves, its feet passed thru my very
own natal soil, and no, I don't mean South Africa.
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| 1084.5 | | HBFDT2::SCHARNBERG | Wish on Space Hardware | Mon Jan 31 1994 05:39 | 13 |
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Various medical methods are called tomography. CT, SPECT and PET come
to mind.
All methods have two things in common:
The final data is presented as a set of slices. Mostly coronal (I
think, I always confuse the terms).
The final data has to be computed, as the acquired data is just a
collection of various views taken from different angles.
HTH
Heiko
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| 1084.6 | | NOVA::FISHER | US Patent 5225833 | Mon Jan 31 1994 08:32 | 7 |
| "... weird concatenation of towns ..."
whose methods were copied by Endicott Peabody?
:-)
ed
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| 1084.7 | No matter how thin you slice it, it's still Greek | FORTY2::KNOWLES | Integrated Service: 2B+O | Mon Jan 31 1994 08:55 | 3 |
| Same -tom- as in tonsillectomy, atom, etc. etc.
b
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| 1084.8 | | NRSTA2::KALIKOW | | Mon Jan 31 1994 09:34 | 14 |
| Brings back happy memories of neurophysiology classes wherein we
stained various brain & spinal areas, mostly from rats, fixed them with
some sort of wax (or epoxy?), and sliced 'em in microtomes. The best
of 'em could slice a cell in half and not make too much of a mess. The
art was in smoothing the sections out again, off of the blade, and
making a slide preparation out of 'em, so as to be able to peer into
the gunk with a microscope without having added artifacts. I still
attempt to practice the art, of a Thanksgiving, for those relatives who
like their turkey sliced really thin.
I can't for the life of me remember the names of some of the staining
reagents, which were picturesque, both phonetically and literally.
Wow, talk about a ratbrainhole.
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| 1084.9 | has nothing to do with .0 | VAXUUM::T_PARMENTER | Double Grandpa | Mon Jan 31 1994 15:06 | 4 |
| Dan, to take your brainrathole a further step towards madness, I once
enjoyed a meal of roast suckling pig carved by a forensic pathologist,
who carefully identified each muscle and bone as he sliced into the
patient.
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| 1084.10 | If yer gonna do it, do it RIGHT!! :-) RatBRAINhole, dammit (-:!! | DRDAN::KALIKOW | | Mon Jan 31 1994 15:42 | 15 |
| ... One hopes & assumes he called in a forensic biologist when he got
to dissecting & serving the apple clenched in the jaws? ...
This reminds me of that wondrous section :-) of Douglas Adams' "The
Restaurant at the End of the Universe" when the talking cow came to the
diners' table, and recommended various parts of her anatomy, including
juicy descriptions of the optomal method of sectioning & preparation,
in a bizarre twist on "Good Evening, I'm Mabel and I'll be your
waitress tonight."
(And I'm deliberately leaving "waitress" (insteada "waitron") etc. in
there as an invitation to the further ratbrainholing of this hapless
note. Since it's served its purpose anyhow, why not victimize it
further, eh?...)
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| 1084.11 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | $ SET MIDNIGHT | Mon Jan 31 1994 20:32 | 3 |
| I thought microtomes were 1084.*, and _The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_-
the_Universe_ was a minitome. At least the forensic biologist would
be glad that the fruit clenched in the jaws is not a tomato.
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