(n.) One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money.
(n.) An inventor or maker, as of words.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was signed off: (Mrs) Margaret Cockcroft aged 96 A childhood word coined in the 1930s and remembered in old age in 2015: a word that summoned back to its coiner – and to me – a moment in time and place.
(2) Towards the end of his life, hailed as coiner of phrases such as the "information economy" and "post-industrialism", Bell continued to lay claim on an eroded 1950s-style political liberalism staggering under blows from the Republican right.
Orcein
Definition:
(n.) A reddish brown amorphous dyestuff, /, obtained from orcin, and forming the essential coloring matter of cudbear and archil. It is closely related to litmus.
Example Sentences:
(1) The orcein staining method seems to be a reliable addition to differentiating histologically between PBC and CAH.
(2) Microscopic examinations of eggs stained with aceto-orcein or the DNA fluorochrome bisbenzimide and direct observations on isolated sperm aster complexes show that halothane induces polyspermy (multiple sperm entry) when present at fertilization.
(3) 5 in whom a clinical and histological diagnosis of Indian Childhood Cirrhosis was made had massive orcein-staining deposits in liver cells.
(4) Determination of fungal elastase, however, requires partial purification of culture extracts and the orcein elastin or gravimetric method.
(6) The orcein positive substance localized in the cytoplasm of hepatocytes, less often it was also seen in a few Kupffer cells.
(7) Aceto-orcein and Giemsa when used cold were found to produce relatively artefact-free preparations.
(8) Orcein-positive material in Kupffer cells was not associated with HBsAg as evaluated by the immune peroxidase method.
(9) This enzyme was inactivated by diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP), phenylmethyl sulphonylfluoride (PMSF), soybean trypsin inhibitor (SBTI), or elastatinal, suggesting a seryl protease resembling elastase, but it failed to digest elastin-orcein.
(10) This group of patients may therefore have both biliary disease are hepatocellular damage, and can be separated from CAH by the orcein method.
(11) These HBcAg inclusions stain greyish pink with chromotrope aniline blue and are negative for orcein, the periodic acid-Schiff reaction, and the Feulgen reaction for DNA.
(12) Liver specimens from 103 patients with various hepatic diseases and from 297 consecutive liver biopsies examined routinely were stained with orcein after oxidation of the tissue sections with potassium permanganate.
(13) One conspicuous feature was the substantially reduced quantity of positive elements in comparison with the results of staining with aldehydefuchsine and orceine.
(14) Cytofluorometric measurements of orcein-stained chromatin revealed an emission peak at 585 nm with a shoulder at 620 nm.
(15) Orcein-positive material was very frequently found in protracted viral hepatitis and in chronic active hepatitis, as well as in other liver diseases with or without cholestasis; it was absent in liver cirrhosis.
(16) The pattern of copper distribution in human newborn liver was investigated by histochemical methods (rhodamine, orcein and rubeanic acid) and by atomic absorption spectroscopy.
(17) OPHM in HCC was stained with orcein when the tissue sections were preoxidized.
(18) It did not correspond to the pattern and texture of material stained with PAS, Sudan Black or acid orcein.
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(20) All 17 biopsy specimens from patients with Wilson's disease had high liver copper concentrations, but only nine had positive staining for copper, and six were orcein positive.