Medical Definition of Chromophil
1. Chromophile Synonym: chromophilic. 2. A cell or any histologic element that stains readily. Synonym: chromatophil, chromaffin. Origin: chromo-+ G. Phileo, to love (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chromophil
Literary usage of Chromophil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"In these cells are a number of chromophil filaments, which are connected from
cell to cell and form a network which lies in the other constituent of the ..."
2. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"Ied chromophil tissue, on account of the ready way in which it stains with chromic
salts. ... The chromophil tissue wherever found always yields adrenaline. ..."
3. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1921)
"Nothing approaching chromophil granules is demonstrable by ordinary or special
stains. Frozen sections and teased specimens show the same character of cell. ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1920)
"The author specially offers good results where the disease is only beginning,
for then the anterior pituitary lobe would present simply a chromophil ..."
5. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1908)
"It is true that aside from what is usually taken to be the true nucleus, it is
the distinctly chromophil portion of the element, and might have specialized ..."
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