1. A staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after being decolourized with alcohol and treated with safranine and washed in water, those that retain the gentian violet are Gram-positive and those that do not retain it are Gram-negative
   - Gram method, Gram's procedure, Gram's stain, Gram stain

Type of: staining

Encyclopedia: Gram's method

• self-aggrandising
• self-aggrandizement
• self-aggrandizing
• self-analysis
• self-annihilation
• self-appointed
• self-asserting
• self-assertion
• self-assertive
• self-assertiveness
• self-assurance
• self-assured
• self-aware
• self-awareness
• self-balancing
• self-catering
• self-centered
• self-centeredness
• self-centred
• self-centredness
• self-collected
• self-colored
• self-coloured
• self-command
• self-complacency