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Definition of Counterstaining
1. counterstain [v] - See also: counterstain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterstaining
Literary usage of Counterstaining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"Prolonged counterstaining has much less effect on the granules of the eosinophile
cells, than upon the granules of phagocytes. ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Ophthalmology by Lawrance Webster Fox (1920)
"If it is mounted without counterstaining it is removed from the wash water and
... counterstaining in Eosin—After decolorization, washing, and treating with ..."
3. Bacteriology, General, Pathological and Intestinal by Arthur Isaac Kendall (1916)
"The decolorization and counterstaining may be accomplished by one operation, ...
Decolorization and counterstaining are accomplished by flooding the ..."
4. Neurological Technique: Some Special Histological Methods Employed for the by Irving Hardesty (1901)
"counterstaining is not always desirable. It gives more prominence to the ...
(a) After counterstaining or omitting the same, wash in distilled water for 2 ..."
5. Human Infection Carriers: Their Significance, Recognition and Management by Charles Edmund Simon (1919)
"... that many of the organisms stain more deeply at the ends than in the middle;
this is shown particularly well in the Gram specimens after counterstaining ..."
6. Elements of Clinical Bacteriology for Physicians and Students by Felix Klemperer, Ernst Levy (1900)
"... employed in counterstaining. After staining with hot carbol-fuchsin solution
the cover-slip preparation, rinsed in water, is placed in the following ..."
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