| HES | health examination survey; hematoxylin-eosin stain; human embryonic skin; human embryonic spleen; hy... |
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| LFB | luxol fast blue [stain] |
| PWS | port wine stain; Prader-Willi syndrome |
| VG | van Gieson [stain]; ventricular gallop; volume of gas |
| WG | water gauge; Wegener granulomatosis; Wright-Giemsa [stain] |
| green tobacco sickness | An illness of tobacco harvest workers characterised by headache, dizziness and vomiting. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |
| guinea green B | An acid diaminotriphenylmethane dye, used as an indicator for H-ion determinations (changing at pH 6.0 from magenta to green) and as a fibre cytoplasmic stain in certain Masson trichrome staining procedures. (05 Mar 2000) |
| methyl green | <chemical> Used as a biological stain and for the dyeing and printing of textiles. Usually compounded with zinc chloride. Pharmacological action: rosaniline dyes. Chemical name: Benzenaminium, 4-((4-(dimethylamino)phenyl)(4-(dimethyliminio)-2,5-cyclohexadien-1-ylidene)methyl)-N,N,N-trimethyl-, dichloride (12 Dec 1998) |
| mitter's green | <chemistry> A pigment of a green colour, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| 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) |