See Also: brilliant green salt agar(medicine)
brilliant green(medicine)
Circumstantiality(health)
circumstantiality(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
brilliant(dictionary)
brilliant(1)(dictionary)
brilliant(2)(dictionary)
brilliant(dictionary)
brilliant yellow(medicine)

brilliant green salt agar (medicine) and circumstantiality (medicine)


brilliant green salt agar (medicine)


brilliant green salt agar


A highly selective culture medium consisting of agar with peptone, lactose, sodium taurocholate, brilliant green, and picric acid solution used in the primary isolation of enteric pathogens such as Salmonella species.


circumstantiality (medicine)


circumstantiality


A disturbance in the thought process, either voluntary or involuntary, in which one gives an excessive amount of detail (circumstances) that is often tangential, elaborate, and irrelevant, to avoid making a direct statement or answer to a question; observed in schizophrenia and in obsessional disorders.

Compare: tangentiality.

Origin: L. Circum-sto, pr. P. -stans, to stand around