See Also: silver-ammoniacal silver stain(medicine)
silver stain(medicine)
silver protein stain(medicine)
Gomori's silver impregnation stain(medicine)
Warthin-Starry silver stain(medicine)
Fontana-Masson silver stain(medicine)
Gomori's methenamine-silver stain(medicine)
Grocott-Gomori methenamine-silver stain(medicine)
Masson-Fontana ammoniacal silver stain(medicine)
Rambourg's periodic acid-chromic methenamine-silver stain(medicine)

silver stain (medicine)


silver stain
<technique> Any of a variety of stain's (e.g., Bielschowsky's, Gomori's silver, impregnation stain's) which employ alkaline silver nitrate solutions to stain connective tissue fibres (reticulin, collagen), calcium salt deposits, spirochaetes, neurological tissue, and nucleolar organiser regions.