(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.
Magenta
Definition:
(n.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Rf values of the analogs were for pararosaniline, 0.54; rosaniline, 0.41; magenta II, 0.31; new fuchsin, 0.19.
(2) Red, magenta, green, cyan, yellow, and white were presented on the CRT.
(3) PAS adds to the cytoplasm a diffuse magenta coloration; and because it is diastase-resistant, less brilliant than that of mucus but more so than bronchiolar cell secretions, and finer textured than lysosomal staining of other cells present, the effect is to highlight small-granule cells whether solitary or in clusters.
(4) Monochromatic targets presented at 30 degrees excentricity on orange, magenta and blue backgrouds are used.
(5) Groups of Syrian golden hamsters were treated with magenta, paramagenta, or phenyl-beta-napthylamine intragastrically, twice weekly for life at maximum tolerated doses.
(6) A magenta-green nulling procedure was used to assess the aftereffect.
(7) Within half an hour there was a huge piece of artwork, in glowing cyan and magenta, on the wall of a former police station.
(8) Smoking habits of 882 employees of Magenta general hospital (province of Milan) (135 doctors, 594 nurses and 153 technicians and clerical staff) were investigated in May 1986, by means of a self-administered questionnaire (response rate 84%).
(9) We prise them away from painting their toes with Midnight Magenta.
(10) It is distinguished by small, sausage-shaped gametocytes (x 10.4 by 4.6 mu), growing schizonts that often contain a noticeable digestive vacuole with the contents partially visible, and striking spherical or bouquet-shaped segmenters whose precise merozoite numbers are difficult to discern (about 22-32) because of an intensely staining magenta or rose-colored substance in the matrix of the surrounding vacuole.
(11) Subgross stereomicroscopic examination of alcian blue and hematoxylin-stained gastric mucosae allowed clear distinction of complete and incomplete intestinal metaplasia types as white (with or without purple hue) and purple foci, respectively, against the background magenta areas of non-intestinalized mucosa.
(12) Magenta II and New Fuchsin) usually found in Basic Fuchsin have been applied as chemically pure dyes to the Feulgen-technique.
(13) In Liverpool, one housing provider, Magenta Living, has admitted that "with changes to welfare benefits there is very little prospect of letting upper three-bedroom maisonettes in the current climate".
(14) For large increments, thresholds on photopic yellow and magenta backgrounds indicated the additive influence of 'blue' and 'green' cones.
(15) However, in the presence of silver nitrate, only homocystine reacts to produce a magenta color.
(16) In evaluating LV ejection fraction, the correlation coefficients between B-color images and angiography (temperature r = 0.93, magenta r = 0.93, rainbow r = 0.92) were slightly higher than that between the gray-scale image and angiography (r = 0.85) (p less than 0.05).
(17) Deoxyribonucleic acid, ribonucleic acid, several synthetic polynucleotides and polyvinylsulfate all convert buffered solutions of basic fuchsin and formaldehyde from a magenta to a purple color at ambient temperature.
(18) It will attract attention and will be different from the normal thing of people shouting down the megaphone … Is it not magenta?
(19) A small monochromatic light, 476 nm on orange, 551 nm on magenta and 621 nm on blue, is flashed at 3 cps-1 on the centre of the targets.
(20) Cyanophils stain either magenta red (gonadotropes) or blue (thyrotropes).