(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.
Purplish
Definition:
(a.) Somewhat purple.
Example Sentences:
(1) A semiautomated colorimetric assay (MTT assay), based on the ability of live cells to reduce a tetrazolium-based compound, 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT), to a purplish colored formazan product that can be measured spectrophotometrically, has recently been adapted for use in drug sensitivity analysis of cultured human tumor cell lines.
(2) The cases found positive by IHC showed brownish nuclei of the epithelium and those positive in ISH showed purple to purplish-black nuclei.
(3) Phlegmasia cerulea dolens is a severe form of venous thrombosis presenting as an edematous, painful, purplish-blue lower extremity.
(4) The heart was well encased by a thick layer of purplish vascular neoplasm enveloped mostly by thin pericardium, with some additional few foci of extracardiac metastasis.
(5) A purplish hue on the cellulitic region is highly suggestive of Hemophilus influenzae bacteremia.
(6) report a case appearing as a painless nontender mass in the right cheek, with purplish discoloration of the overlying skin.
(7) Laser microprobe mass analysis (LAMMA) identified aluminum at the location of the red lines and both aluminum and iron at the purplish lines.
(8) An elderly patient having bone pain, anemia, elevated blood calcium level, and renal failure along with purplish or skin-colored nodules and plaques on the trunk has a good chance of having multiple myeloma.
(9) The second patient presented erythematous and purplish macules on the fingertips.
(10) Twenty-four hours after the procedure, the patient developed purplish discoloration of toes and soles, livedo reticularis on lumbar region, buttocks and limbs, and renal failure.
(11) If you have crevices, crumbling walls or fractured concrete, try maidenhair spleenwort ( Asplenium trichomanes ), with its glossy bright green oval pinnae and purplish black stems.
(12) Pyoderma gangrenosum is a rare neutrophilic dermatosis seen initially as painful pustules or bullae on the skin that rapidly ulcerate and have a characteristic raised, purplish areola surrounding them.
(13) In two cases, however, purplish lines were found and one patient showed red as well as purplish lines.
(14) These granules appear blue with phosphotungstic acid haematoxylin stain, purplish blue with mallory aniline blue stain and are moderately reactive to alcian blue and PAS.
(15) An 85-year-old woman with congenital lymphedema of the right upper extremity developed a small purplish papule on the forearm, which was the first clinical evidence of lymphangiosarcoma.
(16) The skin was purplish in color and tender; the nodules were scattered over the entire surface.
(17) Clinically, they present as purplish-blue cutaneous nodules or, less frequently, as papular or urticarial eruptions.
(18) I came across this purplish-black fruit 20 years ago on my first trip to the country: I found myself up a jabuticaba tree in the backcountry of São Paulo state while, I must admit, stoned out of my own tree.
(19) Pale purplish tongue, purplish tongue, bluish purplish tongue, deep-red purplish tongue, dark tongue, yellow purplish tongue etc.
(20) Gross pathology consisted of purplish or black mucosal or transmural discoloration with erosions or ulcerations in segments of the jejunum or ileum of 18 cases and of the colon alone in four cases.