| Ishak | <technique> A staining method using celestine blue and acid fuchsin in which bile canaliculi stain pink to red. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Ishihara test | <ophthalmology> A test for colour vision deficiency that utilises a series of pseudoisochromatic plates on which numbers or letters are printed in dots of primary colours surrounded by dots of other colours; the figures are discernable by individuals with normal colour vision. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ishihara, Shinobu | <person> Japanese ophthalmologist, 1879-1963. See: Ishihara test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| -ish | <suffix> A suffix used to from adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It denotes relation, resemblance, similarity, and sometimes has a diminutive force; as, selfish, boyish, brutish; whitish, somewhat white. Origin: AS. -isc; akin to G. -isch, OHG. -isc, Goth. & Dan. -isk, Gr. Cf. -esque. (29 Oct 1998) |
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