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trichromes

trichromes is the plural of trichrome.

Meaning of trichrome

Noun

trichrome (plural trichromes)

  1. A combined stain that stains three different tissues three different colours.
    • The stains used were hematoxylin and eosin (H&E), Masson's trichrome, and Verhoeff's stain. Sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin have nuclei that were stained blue, cartilage and calcium deposits stained dark blue, cytoplasm and other constituents stained shades of red, and blood stained...2001, Laura E. Edsberg, Joseph R. Natiella, JoAnn Earle, “Microstructural characteristics of human skin subjected to static versus cyclic pressures”, in Journal of Rehabilitation Research and...

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Questions about trichromes

What is trichromes the plural of?
Trichromes is the plural of trichrome.

Words near trichromes in the dictionary

  1. trichromaticity
  2. trichromatism
  3. trichromatisms
  4. trichromats
  5. trichrome
  6. trichromes
  7. trichromic
  8. trichromophoric
  9. trichromy
  10. trichrysobactin
  11. trichs

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