See Also: Birch-Hirschfeld(medicine)
Birch-Hirschfeld stain(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Hirschfeld(medicine)
pinto(dictionary)
pinto(dictionary)
pinto(encyclopedia)
Hirschfeld's canals(medicine)
pinto bean(dictionary)
Hirschfeld, Al(bert)(encyclopedia)

Birch-Hirschfeld stain (medicine) and pinto (sh)


Birch-Hirschfeld stain (medicine)


Birch-Hirschfeld stain
<technique> An obsolete stain for demonstrating amyloid, using Bismarck brown and crystal violet; amyloid is usually stained a bright ruby red, whereas the cytoplasm of cells is not stained and nuclei are brown.


pinto (sh)




Spotted horse, also called paint, piebald, skewbald, and Other terms to describe variations in colour and markings.

The American Indian ponies of the western U.S. were often pintos. Most pure-breed associations refuse to register horses with pinto colouring. Pintos have colour patterns called overo (white spreading irregularly up from the belly, mixed with a darker colour) and tobiano (white spreading down from the back in smooth, clean-cut patterns).