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Noun gram's stain 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 Stain
Definition: Gram's Stain is a simple staining technique used to differentiate bacterial species into two major groups, namely gram-positive and gram-negative, based on the differences in the cell wall composition.
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Senses:
- A staining technique to classify bacteria into gram-positive and gram-negative groups.
Usages:
- The laboratory technician performed a Gram's stain on the bacterial culture to determine its gram status.
- Gram's stain helped the microbiologist identify and classify the bacterial strain as gram-positive.
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