fuchsinophil

English

Etymology

fuchsin +‎ -o- +‎ -phil

Noun

fuchsinophil (countable and uncountable, plural fuchsinophils)

1. (cytology) Cells or cellular material that stains readily with fuchsin.
   • 1922, Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry - Volume 8, page 160:

     With lichtgriin-fuchsin many ganglion cells showed numerous granules or droplets of fairly large size which stained various colors and may correspond to the so-called fuchsinophil (Fig. 4).

   • 1934, The Year Book of Dermatology and Syphilology, page 531:

     Although in 15 of these, the results proved negative both microscopically and by inoculation, on 13 occasions the results were positive, revealing the presence of rare fuchsinophils, elongated and exceedingly fine.

   • 1981, Zoological Society (Calcutta, India), Proceedings of the Zoological Society - Volume 33, page 77:

     Among the acidophils, fuchsinophils are less in number while basophils (1 ) predominate.

Adjective

fuchsinophil (comparative more fuchsinophil, superlative most fuchsinophil)

1. Alternative form of fuchsinophilic
   • 1956, Saitama Daigaku, The Science Reports of the Saitama University:

     The cell is provided with a nucleus at the base and usually filled with coarse granules, which are fuchsinophil as well as edsinophil.

   • 1958, Zoological Society of London, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London:

     Kull's method for mitochondria reveals the presence of strongly fuchsinophil material in the cells of the yolk-sac endoderm.