Medical Dictionary
metachromasia
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noun
meta·chro·ma·sia
\ˌmet-ə-krō-ˈmā-zh(ē-)ə\
Medical Definition of metachromasia
1: the property of various tissues of staining in a different color (as when treatment with a blue aniline dye makes a cellular element red)
2: the property of various biological stains that permits a single dye to stain different tissue elements in different colors
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