Definition of Fluoresceins

1. Noun. (plural of fluorescein) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fluoresceins

1. fluorescein [n] - See also: fluorescein

Medical Definition of Fluoresceins

1. A family of spiro(isobenzofuran-1(3h),9'-(9h)xanthen)-3-one derivatives. These are used as dyes, as indicators for various metals, and as fluorescent labels in immunoassays. Pharmacological action: fluorescent dyes. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fluoresceins

fluorescamines
fluoresce
fluoresced
fluorescein
fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate
fluorescein-conjugated antibody
fluorescein angiography
fluorescein eye examination
fluorescein instillation test
fluorescein isocyanate
fluorescein isothiocyanate
fluorescein sodium
fluorescein string test
fluoresceine
fluoresceines
fluoresceins (current term)
fluorescence
fluorescence-activated cell sorter
fluorescence-activated cell sorting
fluorescence energy transfer
fluorescence in situ hybridization
fluorescence microscope
fluorescence microscopy
fluorescence plus Giemsa stain
fluorescence polarization
fluorescence recovery after photobleaching
fluorescence spectroscopy

Literary usage of Fluoresceins

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

1. The Chemistry of Pigments by Ernest John Parry, John Henry Coste (1902)
"... is a mixture of chlorinated fluoresceins. ... -fluoresceins are known in commerce ; they are called ... and of nitro-fluoresceins is also known as ..."

2. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1911)
"Esters of Substituted fluoresceins.—The methyl and ethyl esters of ... aqueous solutions hydrochloric acid precipitates the free substituted fluoresceins. ..."

3. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1900)
"It is not easily soluble in absolute alcohol, but dissolves completely in two or 1 The substituted fluoresceins are now regarded as possessing a quinonoid ..."

4. Synthetic Colouring Matters: Dyestuffs Derived from Pyridine, Quinoline by John Theodore Hewitt (1922)
"... c CH/ C.H4<>o COOH CO I II We shall see later that fluoresceins ... occur where two forms of hydrates of substituted fluoresceins have been obtained. 2. ..."

5. Synthetic Colouring Matters: Dyestuffs Derived from Pyridine, Quinoline by John Theodore Hewitt (1922)
"CH/ CH/o COOH CO I II We shall see later that fluoresceins produced from halo- genated phthalic acids form very stable hydrates which only lose the molecule ..."

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