See Also: indicators and reagents(medicine)
sulfhydryl reagents(medicine)
Reagents, Reagent Strips(health)
Kasten's fluorescent Schiff reagents(medicine)
Indicators(money)
Monetary indicators(money)
Economic indicators(finance)
Coincident indicators(finance)
Sentiment Indicators(money)
Momentum indicators(money)

fib 1, noun (oh) and indicators and reagents (medicine)


fib 1, noun (oh)



[Date: 1600-1700; Origin: Perhaps from fable]
a small unimportant lie
-see also white lie white lie
::He's been known to tell fibs .

indicators and reagents (medicine)


indicators and reagents
Substances used for the detection, identification, analysis, etc. Of chemical, biological, or pathologic processes or conditions. Indicators are substances that change in physical appearance, e.g., colour, at or approaching the endpoint of a chemical titration, e.g., on the passage between acidity and alkalinity. Reagents are substances used for the detection or determination of another substance by chemical or microscopical means, especially analysis. Types of reagents are precipitants, solvents, oxidisers, reducers, fluxes, and colourimetric reagents.