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Romanowsky stain, the Glossary

Romanowsky staining is a prototypical staining technique that was the forerunner of several distinct but similar stains widely used in hematology (the study of blood) and cytopathology (the study of diseased cells).^[1]

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Romanowsky stains

Acid fuchsin

Acid fuchsin or fuchsine acid, (also called Acid Violet 19 and C.I. 42685) is an acidic magenta dye with the chemical formula C20H17N3Na2O9S3.

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Azure A

Azure A is an organic compound with the chemical formula C14H14ClN3S.

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Biopsy

A biopsy is a medical test commonly performed by a surgeon, an interventional radiologist, or an interventional cardiologist.

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Blood smear

A blood smear, peripheral blood smear or blood film is a thin layer of blood smeared on a glass microscope slide and then stained in such a way as to allow the various blood cells to be examined microscopically.

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Bone marrow examination

Bone marrow examination refers to the pathologic analysis of samples of bone marrow obtained by bone marrow biopsy (often called trephine biopsy) and bone marrow aspiration. Romanowsky stain and bone marrow examination are hematology.

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Borax

Borax (also referred to as sodium borate, tincal and tincar) is a salt (ionic compound), a hydrated or anhydrous borate of sodium, with the chemical formula (also written as). It is a colorless crystalline solid that dissolves in water to make a basic solution.

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Cell (biology)

The cell is the basic structural and functional unit of all forms of life.

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Cell nucleus

The cell nucleus (nuclei) is a membrane-bound organelle found in eukaryotic cells.

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Cerebrospinal fluid

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear, colorless body fluid found within the tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal cord of all vertebrates.

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Chromate and dichromate

Chromate salts contain the chromate anion,.

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Chromatin

Chromatin is a complex of DNA and protein found in eukaryotic cells.

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Cytopathology

Cytopathology (from Greek κύτος, kytos, "a hollow"; πάθος, pathos, "fate, harm"; and -λογία, -logia) is a branch of pathology that studies and diagnoses diseases on the cellular level. Romanowsky stain and Cytopathology are Anatomical pathology.

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Cytoplasm

In cell biology, the cytoplasm describes all material within a eukaryotic cell, enclosed by the cell membrane, except for the cell nucleus.

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Demethylation

Demethylation is the chemical process resulting in the removal of a methyl group (CH3) from a molecule.

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Diagnosis of malaria

The mainstay of malaria diagnosis has been the microscopic examination of blood, utilizing blood films.

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Dmitri Leonidovich Romanowsky

Dmitri Leonidovich Romanowsky (sometimes spelled Dmitry and Romanowski, Дмитрий Леонидович Романовский; 1861–1921) was a Russian physician who is best known for his invention of an eponymous histological stain called Romanowsky stain. Romanowsky stain and Dmitri Leonidovich Romanowsky are Cytopathology and Romanowsky stains.

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Eosin

Eosin is the name of several fluorescent acidic compounds which bind to and form salts with basic, or eosinophilic, compounds like proteins containing amino acid residues such as arginine and lysine, and stains them dark red or pink as a result of the actions of bromine on eosin.

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Eosin B

Eosin B is a form of eosin which is a dye compound.

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Eosin Y

Eosin Y, also called C.I. 45380 or C.I. Acid Red 87, is a member of the triarylmethane dyes. Romanowsky stain and Eosin Y are staining.

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Eosinophil

Eosinophils, sometimes called eosinophiles or, less commonly, acidophils, are a variety of white blood cells and one of the immune system components responsible for combating multicellular parasites and certain infections in vertebrates. Along with mast cells and basophils, they also control mechanisms associated with allergy and asthma.

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Ethanol

Ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound with the chemical formula.

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Field stain

Field stain is a histological method for staining of blood smears. Romanowsky stain and Field stain are Romanowsky stains and staining.

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Fine-needle aspiration

Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is a diagnostic procedure used to investigate lumps or masses. Romanowsky stain and Fine-needle aspiration are Cytopathology.

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Fixation (histology)

In the fields of histology, pathology, and cell biology, fixation is the preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction. Romanowsky stain and fixation (histology) are histology.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Giemsa stain

Giemsa stain, named after German chemist and bacteriologist Gustav Giemsa, is a nucleic acid stain used in cytogenetics and for the histopathological diagnosis of malaria and other parasites. Romanowsky stain and Giemsa stain are staining.

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Gustav Giemsa

Berthold Carl Gustav Giemsa (November 20, 1867 – June 10, 1948) was a German chemist and bacteriologist who was a native of Medar-Blechhammer (now part of the city Kędzierzyn-Koźle).

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Hematology

Hematology (always spelled haematology in British English) is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood.

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James Homer Wright

James Homer Wright (April 8, 1869 – January 3, 1928) was an early and influential American pathologist, who was chief of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1896 to 1926.

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Jenner's stain

Jenner's stain (methylene blue eosinate) is used in microscopy for staining blood smears. Romanowsky stain and Jenner's stain are Romanowsky stains and staining.

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Leishman stain

Leishman stain, also known as Leishman's stain, is used in microscopy for staining blood smears. Romanowsky stain and Leishman stain are Romanowsky stains and staining.

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Liu's stain

Liu's stain (劉氏染色法) is a staining technique used to stain animal cells. Romanowsky stain and Liu's stain are Anatomical pathology and staining.

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Ludwig Grünwald

Ludwig Grünwald (10 February 1863, Vienna – 11 August 1927) was an Austrian born, German internist and otolaryngologist.

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Lumbar puncture

Lumbar puncture (LP), also known as a spinal tap, is a medical procedure in which a needle is inserted into the spinal canal, most commonly to collect cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) for diagnostic testing.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.

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Malaria antigen detection tests

Malaria antigen detection tests are a group of commercially available rapid diagnostic tests of the rapid antigen test type that allow quick diagnosis of malaria by people who are not otherwise skilled in traditional laboratory techniques for diagnosing malaria or in situations where such equipment is not available.

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May–Grünwald stain

May–Grünwald stain is used for the staining of slides obtained by fine-needle aspiration in a histopathology lab for the diagnosis of tumorous cells. Romanowsky stain and May–Grünwald stain are Romanowsky stains and staining.

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Metachromasia (var. metachromasy) is a characteristical change in the color of staining carried out in biological tissues, exhibited by certain dyes when they bind to particular substances present in these tissues, called chromotropes. Romanowsky stain and Metachromasia are histology.

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Methanol

Methanol (also called methyl alcohol and wood spirit, amongst other names) is an organic chemical compound and the simplest aliphatic alcohol, with the chemical formula (a methyl group linked to a hydroxyl group, often abbreviated as MeOH).

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Methylene blue

Methylthioninium chloride, commonly called methylene blue, is a salt used as a dye and as a medication. Romanowsky stain and methylene blue are histology.

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Microscopy

Microscopy is the technical field of using microscopes to view objects and areas of objects that cannot be seen with the naked eye (objects that are not within the resolution range of the normal eye).

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Papanicolaou stain

Papanicolaou stain (also Papanicolaou's stain and Pap stain) is a multichromatic (multicolored) cytological staining technique developed by George Papanicolaou in 1942. Romanowsky stain and Papanicolaou stain are Cytopathology and staining.

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Parasitism

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Pathology

Pathology is the study of disease and injury.

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Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich (14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy.

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Plasmodium

Plasmodium is a genus of unicellular eukaryotes that are obligate parasites of vertebrates and insects.

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Potassium carbonate

Potassium carbonate is the inorganic compound with the formula K2CO3.

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Precipitation (chemistry)

In an aqueous solution, precipitation is the "sedimentation of a solid material (a precipitate) from a liquid solution".

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Red blood cell

Red blood cells (RBCs), referred to as erythrocytes (with -cyte translated as 'cell' in modern usage) in academia and medical publishing, also known as red cells, erythroid cells, and rarely haematids, are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrate's principal means of delivering oxygen to the body tissues—via blood flow through the circulatory system.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanowsky_stain

Also known as Azure stain, Azure stains, Romanowsky method, Romanowsky staining, Romanowsky stains.

, Redox, Staining, Thionine, White blood cell, William Boog Leishman, World War I, Wright's stain.

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Cytopathology

Hematopathology

Romanowsky stains

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