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Definition of Chromogenic
1. a. Containing, or capable of forming, chromogen; as, chromogenic bacteria.
Definition of Chromogenic
1. Adjective. (photography) Describing a process in which a black-and-white image is replaced by a coloured one ¹
2. Adjective. (biology) Containing or producing chromogen ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chromogenic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Chromogenic
1. Producing colour, a chromogenic colony is a pigmented colony. Origin: Gr. Gennan = to produce (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chromogenic
Literary usage of Chromogenic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1912)
"The chromogenic variety was recovered from 14 cases while 8 yielded a non-chromogenic
acid- fast bacillus which thus far has refused to produce pigment or ..."
2. A Text Book of General Bacteriology by Eugene Franklin McCampbell, William Dodge Frost (1910)
"CHAPTER XVII chromogenic BACTERIA Introduction. — Some species of bacteria when
growing in cultures exhibit various colors. Bacteria of this character are ..."
3. A Manual of determinative bacteriology by Frederick Dixon Chester (1901)
"A. chromogenic, pigment orange-reddish. 1. ... B. Non-chromogenic. Growth on agar
and gelatin grayish. 3. ..."
4. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"chromogenic BACILLI These are identified by the color of their colonies on agar.
... chromogenic ..."
5. Microbes, Ferments and Moulds by Édouard Louis Trouessart (1886)
"... partially due to the physiological labour of these microbes, and consequently
belongs to the class of fermentations. XIV. chromogenic MICROBES. ..."
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