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  • noun (Chem.) The coloring principle of logwood. It is obtained as a yellow crystalline substance, C16H14O6, with a sweetish taste. Formerly called also hematin.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of hematoxylin.

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Examples

  • I illustrated my notes for the latter two subjects with full colour sketches from the practical classes, using purple and pink pencils for haematoxylin and eosin.

    J. Robin Warren - Autobiography 2006

  • Cross section of tongue, "5x" mag, H&E haematoxylin and eosin stain.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Sarah Werning 2007

  • Cross section of tongue, "5x" mag, H&E haematoxylin and eosin stain.

    Historiffic Sarah Werning 2007

  • They are: the chromatin, or coloured nuclear substance, which has a peculiar property of tingeing itself deeply with certain colouring matters (carmine, haematoxylin, etc.), and the achromin (or linin, or achromatin), a colourless nuclear substance that lacks this property.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • They were processed routinely to paraffin wax and 4 µm sections stained with haematoxylin-eosin for cell morphology and Masson trichrome, Verhoeff elastic-Van Gieson and picrosirius red stains for connective tissue content.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gemma L. Walmsley et al. 2010

  • Liquid Diaminobenzidine (DAB) (DAKO) was applied for 5 min and sections were counterstained with Mayer's haematoxylin.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Malgorzata Romanowska et al. 2010

  • The sections were stained with both azan and haematoxylin and eosin.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joris M. Koene et al. 2010

  • Unstained cryosections were stained or reacted with haematoxylin and eosin, modified Gomori trichrome, periodic acid schiff, ATPases at pH 9.8 and 4.3, esterase, NADH-TR, acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase, oil red O and SPA-HRPO by standard methods Immunohistochemistry was performed by incubating 7 µm skeletal muscle cryosections with primary antibodies (diluted in 0.2 M PBS, pH 7.2) for 1 hour at room temperature.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Gemma L. Walmsley et al. 2010

  • Inflammatory infiltrates in the brain were quantified by haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining, as well as immunohistochemistry using antibodies against CD3, CD11b, and MMP-9 on days 20 after active immunization according to published methods

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Routinely, 5 µm-sections were stained in haematoxylin and eosin.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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