| green sulfur bacteria | A group of green or brown bacteria of the families chlorobiaceae and chloroflexaceae that occur in aquatic sediments, sulfur springs, and hot springs and that utilise reduced sulfur compounds instead of oxygen. (12 Dec 1998) |
|---|---|
| green tobacco sickness | An illness of tobacco harvest workers characterised by headache, dizziness and vomiting. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green ton | 2,000 pounds of undried biomass material. Moisture content must be specified if green tons are used as a measure of fuel energy. (05 Dec 1998) |
| green tooth | Green to brown discoloration of the primary teeth associated with erythroblastosis foetalis and caused by deposition of haemoglobin pigments in the developing teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green vision | A condition in which objects appear to be coloured green, as may occur in digitalis intoxication. Synonym: green vision. Origin: chloro-+ G. Opsis, eyesight (05 Mar 2000) |
| green-broom | <botany> A plant of the genus Genista (G. Tinctoria); dyer's weed. Synonym: greenweed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| green-leek | <zoology> An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi). Synonym: the scarlet-breasted parrot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| greenbone | <zoology> Any garfish (Belone or Tylosurus). The European eelpout. Origin: So named because the bones are green when boiled. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| greenery | Green plants; verdure. "A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery." (J. Ingelow) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Greenfield | L., American surgeon who designed the Greenfield filter. See: Greenfield filter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Greenfield filter | A multistrutted spring-styled filter usually placed in the inferior vena cava to prevent venous emboli from reaching the pulmonary circulation from the lower extremity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| greenfinch | <zoology> 1. A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep. 2. The Texas sparrow (Embernagra rufivirgata), in which the general colour is olive green, with four rufous stripes on the head. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| greenfish | <zoology> See Bluefish, and Pollock. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| greengage | <botany> A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| greengill | <zoology> An oyster which has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| haematoxylin-malachite green-basic fuchsin stain | <technique> A stain for epoxy resin-extracted sections; semi-thick sections have their plastic dissolved out and the residual tissue is stained sequentially with the various dyes; nuclei and astrocytes are purplish-pink and myelin, lipid droplets, nucleoli, and oligodendrocytes are bright blue-green. (05 Mar 2000) |
|---|---|
| cyanine green G base | <chemical> Pharmacological action: dye Synonym: d.c. Green no. 6, 1,4-di-4-toluidinoanthraquinone, solvent green 3 (26 Jun 1999) |
| scheele's green | <chemistry> See Green. See: Scheelite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| indocyanine green | <chemical> A tricarbocyanine dye occurring as an olive-brown, dark green, dark blue, or black powder; used intravenously as a diagnostic aid in the determination of blood volume, cardiac output, and hepatic function. Pharmacological action: dyes. Chemical name: 1H-Benz(e)indolium, 2-(7-(1,3-dihydro-1,1-dimethyl-3-(4-sulfobutyl)-2H-benz(e)indol-2-ylidene)-1,3,5-heptatrienyl)-1,1-dimethyl-3-(4-sulfobutyl)-, inner salt, sodium salt (12 Dec 1998) |
| Edridge-Green, Frederick | <person> English ophthalmologist, 1863-1953. See: Edridge-Green lamp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Edridge-Green lamp | A lantern used to test recognition of coloured signals; it displays a single light with colour filters in rotating disks that can be modified to simulate conditions of weather and atmosphere. This test for colour blindness was officially adopted in Great Britain in 1915 in place of the Holmgren wool test, but is now seldom used. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ethyl green | The sulfate of di-(p-diethylamino)-triphenyl carbinolanhydride. An indicator dye that changes from yellow to green at pH 0.0 to 2.6; also used as a topical antiseptic and as a selective bacteriostatic agent in culture media. Synonym: ethyl green. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Janus green B | C30H31N6Cl; diethylsafraninazodimethylaniline chloride;a basic dye used in histology and to stain mitochondria supravitally. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fast green FCF | An acid arylmethane dye widely used in histology and cytology and less subject to fading than light green FCF which it has replaced in many procedures; used as a quantitative cytochemical stain for histones at alkaline pH after acid extraction of DNA, and also in electrophoresis as a protein stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| light green SF yellowish | An acid arylmethane dye, used as a cytoplasmic stain in plant and animal histology; fades badly in bright light. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lissamine green dyes | Green dyes containing ammonium and aryl sulfonate moieties that facilitate the visualization of tissues, if given intravenously. They have mostly been used in the study of kidney physiology. (12 Dec 1998) |