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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Affinity for more than one type of stain, especially for both basic and acidic stains.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition of the red blood-corpuscles, in which they take both acid and basic stains; polychromasia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
affinity (of a sample prepared for microscopic examination) for more than one kind ofstain , especially for both acid and basic stains - noun
polychromasia , a disorder of the red blood cells
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