(n.) A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple.
(n.) A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting.
(n.) The essential coloring principle of cochineal, extracted as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid properties; -- hence called also carminic acid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Estimated by SSST, the FAFol, which employs the stool with the highest content of 51Cr corresponding to the most carmine-colored stool, correlated closely with the FAFol based on complete stool collection (r = 0.96, n = 39, p less than 0.0001).
(2) The frequency and weight of stools significantly decreased, the stools became more solid, and carmine transit time was prolonged during loperamide therapy.
(3) The antibody can be demonstrated in the microprecipitation test on live larvae in vitro and in the agglutination test with carmine-adsorbed antigen.
(4) Among the latter, there were sensitizations, to our knowledge hitherto unreported in the literature: to indigo carmine (2 cases), monensin sodium (1 case), thiabendazole (1 case), methylchlorpindol (1 case) and amprolium hydrochloride (1 case).
(5) This selective method could be valuable in microscopic and cytochemical studies on chromatin because the carmine fluorescence is stable and preparations can be dehydrated and mounted permanently without changes in the fluorescence pattern.
(6) The PAS-reaction, the staining with Best's carmine and the reaction with alizarinblue S for the proof of glycogen were positive in all blood vessels investigated.
(7) The vacuolated liver sections were qualitatively more intense than the dense sections when stained with Best's carmine.
(8) The relative standard deviation for repeated determinations of carminic acid in a commercial strawberry-flavored yogurt was 3.0%.
(9) Oral administration of carminic acid resulted in a biphasic excretion of this dye in the feces, due to coprophagy.
(10) Bagasse supplements accelerated gastrointestinal transit when measured by the carmine marker technique.
(11) Recoveries of carminic acid added to a natural-flavored yogurt ranged from 87.2 to 95.3% with a mean of 90.2%.
(12) Paraffin sections of placentas of control and of fetuses with FAS were stained with hematoxylin and eosin, Best's carmine and PAS with and without diastase (saliva).
(13) Blood samples were taken on each of the last 3 d and faeces collected (using carmine markers) for the last 6 d of each diet period.
(14) The following staining reactions were applied (paraffin embedding or frozen sections): haemalum-eosin stain; PAS-reaction; Sudan III; Sudan black; Best's carmine (for details on the techniques see ROMEIS 1968).
(15) Transit time was determined by carmine and did not differ between groups.
(16) In the course of isolation anthocyanins, carmine, betanin, caramel and riboflavin are separated from synthetic dyes, as well as from one another, with the exception of first two, which are separated from one another by chromatography or distinguished by oxidation.
(17) Intestinal transit times in children less than 3 years old with gastroenteritis were measured using carmine suspension and radioopaque pellets.
(18) The results indicate that cochineal lacks carcinogenicity in mice and are consistent with those of in vitro short-term assays of cochineal and of carminic acid, an active principle of cochineal.
(19) When injected with indigo carmine, the vessels localized by the hydrogen-induced current impulses filled the entire anterior spinal artery from the low thoracic to the sacral region, whereas injection of the other vessels did not show filling.
(20) Andreotti was also accused of having ordered the murder of a rightwing journalist, Carmine Pecorelli, in 1979.
Crimson
Definition:
(n.) A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.
(a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.
(v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
(b. t.) To become crimson; to blush.
Example Sentences:
(1) A tunic of crimson and dark blue velvet survived for centuries, hanging over the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
(2) The lack of obvious motive baffled commentators who said the British director of Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Beverly Hills Cop II appeared to have it all: success, wealth, respect, a wife and two young children.
(3) There are going to be some people on either side who are going to be really emphatic about what they believe,” said Molly Roberts, a 22-year-old senior studying English who writes a column for the Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper.
(4) Ruby Wax identifies with it In the BBC's 2003 Big Read, the crimson-haired comedian chose The Catcher in the Rye as her favourite book.
(5) At this point his face really had gone crimson, which it does when he's genuinely cross.
(6) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(7) He then settled into directing a sequence of moderately entertaining, star-powered thrillers such as Crimson Tide (1995), The Fan (1996) and Enemy of the State (1998), each with apocalyptic tones and convincing performances (from Denzel Washington, Robert De Niro and Will Smith respectively).
(8) Crimson Dragon imagines a future in which humans have colonized other planets in the cosmos but fallen foul of an alien epidemic.
(9) Not because they are uninteresting to me, but because I am making space for all the other questions, the questions about falling in love, about the taste of water in the air, about the blue-black feathers and crimson eyes of the koel bird.
(10) But perhaps the most arresting installation of all is sitting on the sofa next to Hirst in the form of Camila Batmanghelidjh , founder and director of Kids Company , swathed in a bright crimson printed cloak and matching turban, with fluorescent yellow Crocs on her feet.
(11) The crimson swirls were painted, like some of the large late paintings by Henri Matisse, with a brush lashed to the end of a long pole.
(12) Now, it's called Crimson Dragon and, while the Microsoft personnel at the booth couldn't confirm whether Kinect was still part of the package, I can confirm one can now play it with a control pad.
(13) Despite the diversity of his career, a common thread throughout all his films, from the gleeful highs of Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Romance, The Last Boy Scout and Crimson Tide, to the deadening lows of his first film The Hunger, Revenge and Domino (Keira Knightley plays a bounty hunter – let us speak no more about it), is the whizz-bang-chop-cut style.
(14) "[The authorities] think that anyone who is independent or not following their views is a spy of the west," Panahi told the Guardian at the time of Crimson Gold's release.
(15) This was the Crimson’s third straight March Madness appearance and last year’s tournament victory, not to mention the NBA success of Jeremy Lin, currently with the Houston Rockets, has established Harvard as one of the more unlikely “basketball schools” in the country.
(16) All eight Salmonella stock cultures which failed to produce a crimson color belonged to rarely isolated serotypes.
(17) But the most surprising thing was the wording in the crimson ring: FOR GOD AND THE EMPIRE, this order of chivalry's motto.
(18) The color of the mucosa is bright and rich, ranging from crimson the bluish.
(19) BBC2 is also delving into the world of Victorian prostitution with a four-part adaptation by Lucinda Coxon of Michael Faber's novel The Crimson Petal & The White.
(20) According to the Harvard Crimson student newspaper, Rakesh described final clubs as sending “an unambiguous message that they are the exclusive preserves of men” and said their exclusionary practices and access to power “undermine [the values] of the larger Harvard College community”.