dictionary help| Mayer's mucicarmine stain --> mucicarmine | medical dictionary |
A red stain containing aluminum chloride and carmine; used to detect epithelial mucins and mucin-secreting adenocarcinomas; also used to demonstrate the capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans and other fungi.
(05 Mar 2000)
Much, Hans, Much's bacillus, muci-, mucic < Prev | Next > mucid, muciferous, mucific
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