See Also: cigarette-paper scars(medicine)
cigarette paper(dictionary)
Dragendorff's test(medicine)
Dragendorff reagent(medicine)
papyraceous scars(medicine)
Dragendorff, Georg(medicine)
shilling scars(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
cigarette(dictionary)
cigarette(encyclopedia)

Dragendorff's test (medicine) and cigarette-paper scars (medicine)


Dragendorff's test (medicine)


Dragendorff's test


A qualitative test for bile; a play of colours is produced by adding a drop of nitric acid to white filter paper or unglazed porcelain, moistened with a fluid containing bile pigments. The test is essentially the same as Gmelin's test for bile in urine.


cigarette-paper scars (medicine)


cigarette-paper scars
Atrophic scar's in the skin at sites of minor lacerations over the knees, shins, and elbows of persons with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

Synonym: papyraceous scars.