gram's method

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Noun gram's method has 1 sense

Gram's method, Gram method, Gram's procedure, Gram's stain, Gram stain - a staining technique used to classify bacteria; bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution; after being decolorized with alcohol and treated with safranine and washed in water, those that retain the gentian violet are gram-positive and those that do not retain it are gram-negative
--₁ is a kind of staining

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Gram's Method

Definition: Gram's method refers to a chemical staining technique used in microbiology to identify and differentiate bacteria based on their cell wall composition.

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The Gram's method is a fundamental tool in microbiology laboratories for bacterial classification.
By using Gram's method, the technician determined that the bacteria were Gram-positive.
Gram's method involves staining bacterial cells with crystal violet, iodine, ethanol, and safranin.
The Gram's method is named after the Danish bacteriologist, Hans Christian Gram.

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