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hematoxylins

hematoxylins is the plural of hematoxylin.

Meaning of hematoxylin

Noun

hematoxylin (countable and uncountable, plural hematoxylins)

  1. A phenolic compound having the chemical formula C₁₆H₁₄O₆, used (most often in conjunction with eosin) to make dye for staining tissue samples; extracted from the heart of bloodwood trees (Haematoxylum campechianum).
    • Histology sections were cut at 5–6 µm on a rotary microtome, mounted on glass slides, and stained with Harris’s haematoxylin and eosin in a Stainomatic specimen stainer.1995 December 23, N. Jaax et al., “Transmission of Ebola virus (Zaire strain) to uninfected control monkeys in a biocontainment laboratory”, in The Lancet, volume 346, number 8991, →PMID, page 1669

Questions about hematoxylins

What is hematoxylins the plural of?
Hematoxylins is the plural of hematoxylin.

Words near hematoxylins in the dictionary

  1. hematoxicity
  2. hematoxilin
  3. hematoxylene
  4. hematoxylin
  5. hematoxyline
  6. hematoxylins
  7. hematozoa
  8. hematozoal
  9. hematozoan
  10. hematozoic
  11. hematozoon

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