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Definition: Fluorescein |
FluoresceinNoun1. A yellow dye that is visible even when highly diluted; used as an absorption indicator when silver nitrate solution is added to sodium chloride in order to precipitate silver chloride (turns pink when no chloride ions are left in solution and negative fluorescein ions are then absorbed). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: FluoresceinSynonyms: fluoresceine (n), fluorescent dye (n), resorcinolphthalein (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fluorescein |
| English words defined with "fluorescein": bromeosin ♦ eosin, Erythrosin ♦ fluoresceine, fluorescent dye, Fluorescin ♦ Resorcin, resorcinolphthalein ♦ Uranin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fluorescein": Eosine I Bluish ♦ Fluorescein Angiography, fluorescence dye, Fluorophotometry ♦ Microscopy, Fluorescence. (references) |
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 | The L. pneumophila bacteria are tagged with a monoclonal antibody treated with a fluorescein dye. After binding to the bacteria the slide is viewed under UV light, and the bacterial cell walls glow green. Credit: CDC. |  | The Legionella pneumophila bacteria are tagged with a monoclonal antibody treated with a fluorescein dye. After binding to the bacteria the slide is viewed under UV light, and the bacterial cell walls glow green. Credit: CDC. |
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Health | If your eye care professional suspects you have wet AMD, you may need to have a test called fluorescein angiography. (references) | |
Should your doctor suspect that you need treatment for macular edema, he or she may ask you to have a test called fluorescein angiography. (references) | ||
If fluid, blood, or abnormal blood vessels are present, an eye care professional may want to perform a diagnostic procedure called fluorescein angiography. (references) | ||
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| "Fluorescein" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fluorescein" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fluorescein": Fluorescein Angiography ♦ fluorescein isocyanate ♦ fluorescein isothiocyanate. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fluorescein": Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate, fluorescein-coated, fluorescein-coupled, fluorescein-latex-labelled, fluorescein-tagged. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fluorescein | 33 |
fluorescein angiography | 24 |
fluorescein angiogram | 5 |
dye fluorescein | 5 |
diacetate fluorescein | 3 |
fluorescein sodium | 3 |
fluorescein isothiocyanate | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "fluorescein"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 荧光素. (various references) | |
Danish | fluorescein. (various references) | |
Dutch | fluoresceine. (various references) | |
Finnish | verkkokalvon fluoresenssiangiografia (fluorescein angiography). (various references) | |
French | fluorescéine. (various references) | |
German | Fluorescein. (various references) | |
Greek | φθοριεσκίνη. (various references) | |
Italian | fluoresceina. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uoresceinflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fluoresceína. (various references) | |
Spanish | fluoresceína. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fluorescein": fluoresceins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "fluorescein" (pronounced 'Flu`o*res"ce*in'): Absinthin, Acetin, Achromatin, Achroodextrin, Acrolein, Agrin, Akin, Albumin, Albuminin, Alevin, Algin, Alizarin, Alkarsin, Allantoin, Alloxantin, Aloin, Ambrein, Ambrosin, Amidin, Amygdalin, Amylopsin, Anchusin, Anemonin, Antiarin, Antivenin, Apocynin, Appertain, Arabin, Archchamberlain, Arnicin, Arschin, Asbolin, Ascertain, Aspirin, Atwain, Aubin, Aurin, Austin, Autopsorin, Avenalin, Bacterin, Bain, Baldachin, Baldwin, Ballotin, BASIN, Baudekin, Bavin, Bearskin, Beaufin. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: cinereous, enclosure, felonries, florences, flouncier, fluencies, fluorenes, fluoresce, fluorines, inclosure, licensure, reclusion. | |
-3 letters: cineoles, coenures, coinfers, coinsure, conifers, creolise, eloiners, encloser, enforces, ensorcel, felonies, florence, flounces, fluerics, fluorene, fluorine, fluorins, forensic, fornices, frounces, funicles, fusileer, incloser, insecure, leucines, licenser, licensor, lucernes, lucifers, olefines, reclines, reinfuse, scornful, silencer, sinecure, sneerful, sulfonic. | |
-4 letters: ceilers, censure. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: fluoresceins. | |
+2 letters: nickeliferous. | |
+4 letters: antiforeclosure. | |
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