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Definition of Acriflavine

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Medical Definition of Acriflavine

1. 3,6-diamino-10-methylacridinium chloride mixt. With 3,6-acridinediamine. Fluorescent dye used as a local antiseptic and also as a biological stain. It intercalates into nucleic acids thereby inhibiting bacterial and viral replication. Pharmacological action: anti-infective agents, local, fluorescent dyes. Chemical name: Acridinium, 3,6-diamino-10-methyl-, chloride, mixt. With 3,6-acridinediamine (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Acriflavine

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1. A Handbook on Antiseptics by Henry Drysdale Dakin, Edward Kellogg Dunham (1917)
"It is prepared like malachite green by heating diethylaniline with zinc chloride and benzotrichloride. acriflavine ..."

2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"acriflavine has been claimed by Browning and his associates 23 to be a most ... Dakin and Dunham 2* regard acriflavine as distinctly more active under most ..."

3. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"He has obtained good results from the use of acriflavine; the drug is as efficacious as in the male. His routine is to order the patient to sit in a hot ..."

4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"Mann, LT : The acriflavine Irrigation Treatment of Gonorrhoea. ... Ai :4,ooo solution of acriflavine in physiological saline at body temperature is used ..."

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