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Microscope
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Used to view tissue and cellular structures that too small for examination with the naked eye.
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Ocular lenses ( eyepiece)
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The lens the viwer looks throgh to see the specimen. it usually contains a 10X or 15X power lens.
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Diopter adjustment
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Useful as a means to change focus one one eyepiece so as to correct for any difference in vision between your two eyes.
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Arm
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The arm conects the body tube to the base of the microscope.
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Mechanical Stage Control
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These knobs move the stage left and right or up and down.
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Fine adjustment (small)
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Fine tunes the focus and increases the detail of the specimen.
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Coarse adjustment ( large)
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Brings the specimen into general focus
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Body tuve ( Head)
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Conects the eyepiece to the objective lenses.
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Rotating Nosepiece
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A rotating turrent that houses the objective lenses. the viwer spins the nosepiece to select different objective lenses.
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Objective lenses
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One of the most important parts of the compound microscope, as they are the lenses closest to the specimen.
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Specimen or slide
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It is the object being examined.
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Stage
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The flat plataform where the slide is placed.
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Mechanical Stage
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Holds the slide securely and is used to position the object to viwed directly over the stage aperture.
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Aperture
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The hole in the middle of the stage that allows the light from the iluminator to reach the specimen.
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On/ Off swich
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This swich on the base of the microscope turns the iluminator off and on.
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