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Definition of Gram method
1. Noun. A staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after being decolorized with alcohol and treated with safranine and washed in water, those that retain the gentian violet are Gram-positive and those that do not retain it are Gram-negative.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gram Method
Literary usage of Gram method
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"A method in which the organisms or granules which stain by the Gram method, and
to which so much importance is attributed by Much, may be stained, ..."
2. A Practical Study of Malaria by William Heiskell Deaderick (1909)
"Of 35 cases among irregular users 17 employed the */2-gram method and only 3 the
1-gram method. From these figures it is evident that Koch's method is ..."
3. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1890)
"8) ha recently taken the place of the Gram method, on account of it various
advantages over the latter. By the Weigert method th above-mentioned reaction is ..."
4. The Principles of Bacteriology: A Practical Manual for Students and Physicians by Alexander Crever Abbott (1921)
"In the slip stained by the Gram method the same groups of cocci which grow as
threes and fours will be seen; but the lancet-shaped diplococci may now ..."
5. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1904)
"Permanent preparations may be made by making smears, and staining either by the
simple or by the Gram method. The pus may be hardened iu mercuric chloride, ..."
6. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1907)
"The young colonies with filaments and the coccus-like bodies are well stained by
the Gram method,1 and in sections previously treated with carmine a very ..."
7. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1916)
"A method in which the organisms or granules which stain by the Gram method, and
to which so much importance is attributed by Much, may be stained, ..."
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