See Also: Ehrlich's acid haematoxylin stain(medicine)
Mallory's phosphotungstic acid haematoxylin stain(medicine)
haematoxylin and eosin stain(medicine)
haematoxylin-phloxine B stain(medicine)
Ehrlich's triple stain(medicine)
Ehrlich's triacid stain(medicine)
Heidenhain's iron haematoxylin stain(medicine)
Weigert's iron haematoxylin stain(medicine)
chrome alum haematoxylin-phloxine stain(medicine)
Ehrlich's aniline crystal violet stain(medicine)

hireling (iou) and Ehrlich's acid haematoxylin stain (medicine)


hireling (iou)



hireling noun & adjective. Usu. derog. OE.
[from HIRE noun + -LING1.]
A. noun.
A person who serves for hire; one motivated chiefly by reward or material remuneration; a mercenary. OE.
Byron Baser hirelings, who live by lies on good men's lives. A. Duggan I hoped that the infantry of the line would do better than our Arab hirelings.
A hired horse. L19.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or pertaining to a hireling; serving for hire; mercenary. L16.
? Rare in OE; not recorded again until 16, when formed afresh, prob. after Dutch huurling.

Ehrlich's acid haematoxylin stain (medicine)


Ehrlich's acid haematoxylin stain
<technique> An alum type of haematoxylin stain used as a regressive staining method for nuclei, followed by differentiation to required staining intensity; the solution may be allowed to ripen naturally in sunlight or partially oxidised with sodium iodate.