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Direction: Write the correct answer beside the number. NO ERASURES. Fill the table with answer
needed. You can use the back of the paper if the space provided is not adequate.

1. Air holes found on tissue during trimming. A. Labelling

A. incomplete freezing B. Fixation
B. dirty wax is used C. Mounting
C. there is wax in the metal mold D. Dehydration
D. incomplete impregnation
10. Most important step in embedding.
2. sections of unequal thickness are produced. A. orientation
A. the knife is dull B. heated wax
B. knife or block holder screw is loose
C. knife is dirty FAULT REASON REMEDY
D. all of the above ribbon is split or 1. 2.
lengthwise
3. reasons to re-embed in filtered wax. vertical scratches
A. wax appears crystalline are seen on 3. 4.
B. tissue is opaque sections
C. both A and B
D. A only

4. remedy when sections are produced in section cut is 5. 6.

unequal thickness sometimes thin,
A. sharpen the knife sometimes thick
B. reduce the tilt of the knife a hole is formed in 7. 8.
C. cool paraffin wax in ice the section
D. change the knife

5. fault when the knife is blunt. tissue is soft when 9. 10.

A. sections adhere and get broken against the block is trimmed
knife edge
B. unequal thickness of ribbon
C. sections are squashed tissue is opaque 11. 12.
D. all of the above

6. Step after sectioning during actual practice

A. de-paraffinize
B. staining brittle or hard 13. 14.
C. xylene for 30 mins tissue
D. cool in the freezer

7. Used to clean microtome after sectioning.

A. Brush clearing agent 15. 16.
B. towel turns milky
C. xylene

D. alcohol sections fail to 17. 18.

form ribbons
8. ER, PR and HER2 NEU is:
A. Liver panel test
B. kidney panel test
C. gallbladder panel test sections are 19. 20.
D. breast panel test wrinkled,
compressed or
9. Most important step in tissue processing. jammed
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C. heated metal mold

D. specimen size