GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Stage: The flat platform where you place your slides. Stage clips hold the slides in place. Revolving Nosepiece or Turret: This is the part that holds two or more objective lenses and can be rotated to easily change power. Objective Lenses: Usually you will find 3 or 4 objective lenses on a microscope.

Detailed explanation-2: -A microscope slide is a thin flat piece of glass, typically 75 by 26 mm (3 by 1 inches) and about 1 mm thick, used to hold objects for examination under a microscope. Typically the object is mounted (secured) on the slide, and then both are inserted together in the microscope for viewing.

Detailed explanation-3: -Stage clip is a spring piece mounted on the microscope stage for fixing the slide or the object to be observed.

Detailed explanation-4: -Compound Microscopes Place the microscope slide on the stage (6) and fasten it with the stage clips. Look at the objective lens (3) and the stage from the side and turn the focus knob (4) so the stage moves upward. Move it up as far as it will go without letting the objective touch the coverslip.

Detailed explanation-5: -Eyepiece Lens: the lens at the top of the microscope that you look through. They eyepiece is usually 10x or 15x power.