Definition of Gram-positive

1. Adjective. (of bacteria) being or relating to a bacterium that retains the violet stain used in Gram's method.

Category relationships: Bacteria, Bacterium
Similar to: Confirming, Positive

Medical Definition of Gram-positive

1. Bacteria that retain the stain or that are resistant to decolourisation by alcohol during Gram's method of staining. This is a primary characteristic of bacteria whose cell wall is composed of a thick layer of peptidologlycan containing teichoic and lipoteichoic acid complexed to the peptidoglycan. See: gram-negative (06 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gram-positive

gram-meter
gram-molecular weight
gram-molecule
gram-negative
gram-negative
gram-negative aerobic bacteria
gram-negative aerobic rods and cocci
gram-negative anaerobic bacteria
gram-negative anaerobic cocci
gram-negative bacteria
gram-negative bacterial infections
gram-negative chemolithotrophic bacteria
gram-negative facultatively anaerobic rods
gram-negative oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria
gram-positive (current term)
gram-positive (current term)
gram-positive asporogenous rods
gram-positive bacteria
gram-positive bacterial infections
gram-positive cocci
gram-positive endospore-forming bacteria
gram-positive endospore-forming rods
gram-positive rods
grama
gramaries
gramary
gramarye
gramarye
gramaryes
gramas

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