单词 | acid-fast |
释义 | > as lemmasacid-fast acid-fast adj. [after German säurefest (1897 or earlier); compare fast adj. 1e] (esp. of mycobacteria) resistant to decolorization by mineral acids after initial staining; (also) designating or relating to this staining technique. ΚΠ 1899 Practitioner 63 451 The chief acid-fast tubercle-like bacilli are evidently very widely distributed. 1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) xii. 166 Actinomyces... Some species are micro-aerophilic or anaerobic, and some are acid-fast. 1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) xxvii. 377 The acid-fast staining procedure commonly employed is the Ziehl–Neelsen method. 1997 New Scientist 5 Apr. 57/4 Bacilli which keep a stain when soaked in sulphuric acid (they are all mycobacteria) are known as acid-fast bacilli, or AFBs. < as lemmas |
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