| hanging | 1. Requiring, deserving, or foreboding death by the halter. "What a hanging face!" 2. Suspended from above; pendent; as, hanging shelves. 3. Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges. Hanging compass, a compass suspended so that the card may be read from beneath. Hanging garden, a garden sustained at an artificial elevation by any means, as by the terraces at Babylon. Hanging indentation. See Indentation. Hanging rail, the upper wall of inclined vein, or that which hangs over the miner's head when working in the vein. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| hanging drop | A drop of liquid on the undersurface of the object glass for examination under the microscope. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hanging drop slide | <microscopy> A glass slide with a concavity or a built-up chamber which allows a drop of culture to be placed on a cover- slip inverted over the cell. It makes possible the examination of freely moving protozoa, etc., confined only by the limits of the drop and the bottom surface of the coverslip. (05 Aug 1998) |
| hanging septum | The deformity caused by an abnormal width of the septal portion of the alar cartilages. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hanging-block culture | The propagation of microorganisms on a cube of solidified agar medium which is inoculated, attached to a cover glass, and inverted over a moist chamber or hollowed slide. (05 Mar 2000) |