See Also: Schmorl's ferric-ferricyanide reduction stain(medicine)
Schmorl's picrothionin stain(medicine)
Ferricyanide(medicine)
ferricyanide reductase(medicine)
Schmorl node(medicine)
Schmorl, Christian(medicine)
Schmorl's nodule(medicine)
Schmorl's jaundice(medicine)
Schmorl's bacillus(medicine)
Ferric(medicine)

be- (oh) and Schmorl's ferric-ferricyanide reduction stain (medicine)


be- (oh)



[Language: Old English; Origin: bi-, be-]
[in verbs] used to mean that someone or something is treated in a particular way
::Don't belittle him (=say he is unimportant) .
::He befriended me (=became my friend)
literary [in adjectives] wearing or covered by a particular thing
::a bespectacled boy (=wearing glasses)

Schmorl's ferric-ferricyanide reduction stain (medicine)


Schmorl's ferric-ferricyanide reduction stain
<technique> A stain to test for reducing substances in tissues, including melanin, argentaffin granules, thyroid colloid, keratin, keratohyalin, and lipofuscin pigments; ferricyanide is converted into ferrocyanide which is converted to insoluble Prussian blue in the presence of ferric ions.