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Definition of Methylene blue

1. Noun. A dark green dye used as a stain, an antiseptic, a chemical indicator, and an antidote in cyanide poisoning.

Definition of Methylene blue

1. Noun. (organic compound) A heterocyclic aromatic chemical compound with many uses in biology and chemistry. ¹

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Medical Definition of Methylene blue

1. Methylthionine chloride; dark green crystals or crystalline powder having a bronze-like luster, readily reduced to colourless leukomethylene blue, which in turn is readily oxidised to methylene blue. Used as a bacteriologic stain and as an indicator, and administered orally or intravenously in the treatment of congenital methemoglobinaemia and cyanide poisoning. Pharmacological action: anti-infective agents, urinary, antidotes, dyes. Chemical name: Phenothiazin-5-ium, 3,7-bis(dimethylamino)-, chloride (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Methylene blue

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1892)
"For the next six days the patient had daily seven and a half grains of methylene blue, in separate doses of one and a half grains, at intervals from noon to ..."

2. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1907)
"SOz, is an oxidation product formed by boiling weak alkalies or silver oxide with methylene blue. Its direct separation in pure form from methylene violet ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"Malarial Parasites and methylene blue.—DR. ... administers methylene blue in three daily doses of 5 grains each to patients in whose blood tertian parasites ..."

4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1904)
"If methylene blue kills off only the adult organisms it is evident that the ... Particular interest relates to the value of methylene blue in those cases of ..."

5. The Fundamental Processes of Dye Chemistry by Hans Eduard Fierz-David (1921)
"Owing to its very pure shade and low price, methylene blue is highly valued, ... For silk printing the zinc-free methylene blue is used for the production ..."

6. A Manual of clinical diagnosis by means of laboratory methods, for students by Charles Edmund Simon (1902)
"Staining with Eosin-methylal and Methylene-blue.—The reagent consists of 10 cc ... A saturated aqueous solution of methylene-blue may be used for the same ..."

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