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Methylene blue   /mˈɛθɪlˌin blu/   Listen
Methylene blue

noun
1.
A dark green dye used as a stain, an antiseptic, a chemical indicator, and an antidote in cyanide poisoning.  Synonym: methylthionine chloride.






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"Methylene blue" Quotes from Famous Books



... previously sterilised by having had some water boiled in it, and sent to a laboratory for investigation. To identify the bacillus a piece of the membrane from the swab is rubbed on a cover glass, dried, and stained with methylene blue or other basic stain; or cultures may be made on agar or other suitable medium. When a bacteriological examination is impossible, or when the clinical features do not coincide with the results obtained, the patient should always be treated on the assumption that he suffers from diphtheria. ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

... body in a loose union in possession of an amoeboid cell. During sleep they may separate. The sublime ego wanders through nerve paths to the bowels, and the bowel experiences are the dreams." An experiment brought a definite proof of this. The druggist dyed some crackers deep blue with methylene blue, and later dreamed that a large train of blue food was passing by. As each carriage of the train corresponded to a granule of starch in the crackers, he was able to figure that the ego which saw those parts of the ...
— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg



Words linked to "Methylene blue" :   thiazine, stain



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