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Definition of Gram-positive

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

Definition of Gram-positive

1. Adjective. (bacteriology) stained dark blue or violet by Gram staining due to large quantities of peptidoglycan in the cell wall ¹

2. Adjective. (context: medicine of a bacterium) that is stained violet by Gram's method ¹

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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)

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Literary usage of Gram-positive

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1. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1915)
"There are also gram-positive, long, thick rods which belong in the ... Certain gram-positive bacilli of the length of the first type of the bacillus ..."

2. Bacteriology and Mycology of Foods by Fred Wilbur Tanner (1919)
"Gram positive bacteria forms a compound between the protoplasm of the cell and the dye which is insoluble in alcohol. In the Gram negative bacteria this ..."

3. Pathogenic microorganisms by William Hallock Park (1920)
"A Gram-stained smear may show all Gram-negative or all Gram- positive microbes or a mixture of the two, or it may show a number only partially stained ..."

4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1916)
"Yeast, Staphylococcus albus, small Gram- positive bacillus. ... 1 tube was sterile, 1 contained a short gram-positive bacillus, and 4, including the tube ..."

5. A Textbook of bacteriology: A Practical Treatise for Students and by Hans Zinsser, Frederick Fuller Russell (1922)
"The former are often spoken of as the gram-positive, the latter as Gram-negative bacteria. The reasons for the differential value of Gram's method are not ..."

6. Bacteriology, General, Pathological and Intestinal by Arthur Isaac Kendall (1921)
"The essential character of the gram-positive cell membrane is that it does not ... The capacity for retaining the compound dye in gram-positive cells is ..."

7. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"Satisfactory differentiation between Gram positive and Gram negative organisms can be obtained with any of the domestic gentian violets, methyl violet and ..."

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