chromatoidadj.
/ˈkrəʊmətɔɪd/ Biology.
Capable of receiving a stain: said of certain grains or granules.
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basophil1890
neutrophil1890
neutrophilic1893
oxyphil1893
oxyphilous1893
basophilic1894
basophilous1894
metachromatic1894
polychromatophilic1897
polychromatophil1898
chromophil1899
chromophilic1899
chromophobic1899
orthochromatic1899
polychromatic1899
pycnomorphous1899
fuchsinophil1900
neutrophilous1900
carminophilous1901
chromatoid1901
oxyphilic1901
pyknotic1902
sudanophil1902
chromaffin1903
metachromic1908
chromophobe1909
phaeochrome1909
sudanophilic1909
trachychromatic1909
polychromasic1911
chromaffinic1913
osmiophilic1923
osmophile1923
Feulgen-negative1928
fuchsinophilic1931
heteropycnotic1934
osmophilic1936
isopycnotic1950
Feulgen-positive1954
1901 G. N. Calkins Protozoa 144 The so-called chromatoid granules.
1912 E. A. Minchin Introd. Study Protozoa 289 Many trypanosomes contain granules in their cytoplasm which stain similarly to chromatin, so-called ‘chromatoid grains’.
1952 R. J. Ludford in G. H. Bourne Cytol. & Cell Physiol. (ed. 2) ix. 397 The larger Negri bodies..consist of a ground substance containing a central body surrounded by chromatoid granules.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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