Definition of Destained

1. Verb. (past of destain) ¹

2. Adjective. From which stain has been removed ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Destained

1. destain [v] - See also: destain

Lexicographical Neighbors of Destained

destabilise
destabilised
destabiliser
destabilisers
destabilises
destabilising
destabilization
destabilizations
destabilize
destabilized
destabilizer
destabilizers
destabilizes
destabilizing
destain
destained
destaining
destains
destalinisation
destalinise
destalinization
destalinize
destalinized
destalinizes
destalinizing
destandardise
destandardised
destandardises
destandardising
destandardize

Literary usage of Destained

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

1. Collected Papers (1922)
"In some specimens, particularly such as have not been sufficiently destained, the caudal halves of these structures are seen in close apposition and may ..."

2. Clinical Rheumatology: A Problem-oriented Approach to Diagnosis and Management by Roland W. Moskowitz (1921)
"... and are stained from five to ten minutes in Dela- field's hematoxylin. The stain is then washed off with tap water, destained with acid alcohol, ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"Smears from the lung show a coccus which stains by Gram ; from the liver and spleen a short bacillus destained by Gram ; from the kidney and heart's blood ..."

4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1922)
"... and still other areas where the capsules have been entirely destained and in which the organisms appear as short, thick bacilli with blunt, rounded ends ..."

5. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"The chromosomes at best tend to mass together, and if not strongly destained, form a huge black mass in which nothing can be distinguished. ..."

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