stain

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stain[1,transitive verb] stain[2,noun] basic stain Giemsa stain Gram's stain Jenner's stain Levaditi stain Mallory's triple stain May-Grunwald stain neutral dye neutral stain Nissl stain port-wine stain Romanowsky stain Verhoeff's stain vital dye vital stain Warthin-Starry stain Wright's stain Ziehl-Neelsen stain

Main Entry: ¹stain
Pronunciation: stn
Function: transitive verb
1 : to cause discoloration of <smoking stains teeth>
2 : to color by processes affecting chemically or otherwise the material itself <stain bacteria with a fluorescent dye>
intransitive verb : to receive a stain