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Definition of Metachromatic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Metachromatic
1. Denoting cells or dyes that exhibit metachromasia. Synonym: metachromophil, metachromophile. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metachromatic
Literary usage of Metachromatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Microbiology: A Text-book of Microörganisms, General and Applied by Charles E. Marshall (1921)
"metachromatic CORPUSCLES AND RESERVE PRODUCTS.—The vacuoles always contain a
great many shining granules, showing Brownian motion and capable of being ..."
2. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1896)
"metachromatic bodies and spore-formations of a streptococcus (scarlatina) with
sheath ... Fibre formations and metachromatic bodies in bacillus of glanders. ..."
3. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by William Dodge Frost, Eugene Franklin McCampbell (1910)
"metachromatic and Polar Granules. — Under certain conditions in some species of
bacteria the cells show a peculiar granular appearance when stained with the ..."
4. Agricultural Bacteriology by Joseph Eames Greaves (1922)
"Some bacteria contain various granules within the cell which stain differently
from the substance of the cell body; these are known as "metachromatic" ..."
5. Transactions of the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and (1913)
"Later they form tiny metachromatic granules, passing through a cycle similar to
that described for the trachoma inclusions. We have carried through a number ..."
6. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1915)
"1, 2 and 5); (b) cytoplasm containing reddish metachromatic granules, usually
two in number symmetrically arranged. These bacilli are also frequently curved ..."
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