| sudan | A republic in eastern africa, south of egypt and west of ethiopia. Its capital is khartoum. It was under egypt 1820-82, then jointly administered by egypt and great britain after 1899 as the anglo-egyptian sudan. It gained independence in 1956. The name is of arabic origin, balad as-sudan: bal (land) + al (as) (the) + sudan (black), the land of the blacks, the name given originally by arabian travelers. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Sudan black B | A diazo dye, C29H24N6, used as a stain for fats. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sudan brown | A brown stain, (C10H7)N==N(C10H6)OH, derived from alpha-naphthylamine and used as a stain for fats. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sudan III | A red stain, (C6H5)N==N(C6H4)N==N(C10H6)OH, used for neutral fat in histologic technique; it also stains the fatty envelope of the tubercle bacillus. Synonym: Sudan red III. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sudan IV | O-Tolylazo-o-tolylazo-beta-naphthol. An azo dye; a dark, brownish red powder, soluble in oils, fats, and chloroform, but insoluble in water; used in medicine as a vulnerary, in histology to stain fat in tissue sections and basic proteins at high pH, and in immunoelectrophoresis. Synonym: Biebrich scarlet red, medicinal scarlet red, scharlach red, Sudan IV. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sudan red III | A red stain, (C6H5)N==N(C6H4)N==N(C10H6)OH, used for neutral fat in histologic technique; it also stains the fatty envelope of the tubercle bacillus. Synonym: Sudan red III. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sudan stain | <chemical, investigation> Histochemical stains used for lipids. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Sudan yellow | Metadioxyazobenzene;a yellow stain for fats. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sudanophilia | 1. Affinity for an oil-soluble or Sudan dye. 2. A condition in which leukocytes contain minute fat droplets that take a brilliant red stain when treated with 0.2% Sudan III and 0.1% cresyl blue in absolute alcohol. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sudanophilic | Staining easily with Sudan dyes, usually referring to lipids in tissues. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sudanophobic | Denoting tissue that fails to stain with a Sudan or fat-soluble dye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sudanophobic zone | A zone of cells, at the periphery of the zona fasciculata in the adrenal cortex of the rat, that is not stained by Sudan dyes. (05 Mar 2000) |