See Also: contrast stain(medicine)
contrast(1)(dictionary)
Contrast(health)
Contrast(medicine)
contrast(2)(dictionary)
Contrast media(health)
Border contrast(health)
Contrast material(medicine)
Area contrast(health)
phase contrast(medicine)

eledone (iou) and contrast stain (medicine)


eledone (iou)



eledone noun. M19.
[mod. Latin (see below) from Greek eledone a kind of polypus.]
An eight-armed bottom-dwelling cephalopod of the genus Eledone, related to the octopus.

contrast stain (medicine)


contrast stain
<technique> A dye used to colour one portion of a tissue or cell which remained unaffected when the Other part was stained by a dye of different colour.

Synonym: differential stain.