red-riband |
<zoology> The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish.
Source: Websters Dictionary
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red-short |
<chemistry> Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; said of certain kinds of iron. Red"-shortness.
Source: Websters Dictionary
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red strawberry tongue |
Clinical manifestation of Kawasaki's disease.
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red sweat |
Reddening of sweat, especially in the axilla, due to pigment produced by Streptomyces roseofulvis.
See: chromidrosis.
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red-tailed |
Having a red tail.
<zoology> Red-tailed hawk, a large North American hawk (Buteo borealis). When adult its tail is chestnut red.
Synonym: hen hawck, and red-tailed buzzard.
Source: Websters Dictionary
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red test |
An obsolete test for renal function; after the patient has drunk a glass or two of water, 1 ml of a 0.6% solution of dye is injected hypodermically; the time between this injection and the appearance of a pink tinge in the urine as it falls into an alkaline solution is noted; the amount excreted in each of the next 2 hours is then estimated colourimetrically.
Synonym: Geraghty's test, phthalein test, red test, Rowntree and Geraghty test.
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red thrombus |
A thrombus formed rapidly by the coagulation of stagnating blood, composed mainly of red blood cells rather than platelets.
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red vision |
An abnormality of vision in which all objects appear to be tinged with red.
Synonym: red vision.
Origin: erythro-+ G. Ops, eye
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red wine |
Claret, an alcoholic liquor made by fermenting grapes, the fruit of Vitis vinifera, with their skins (which imparts colour); has been used as a tonic.
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vital red |
Trisodium salt of a sulfonated diazo dye (a ditolyl group diazotised to sulfonated aminonaphthalene residues), used as a vital stain.
Synonym: brilliant vital red.
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medicinal scarlet red |
O-Tolylazo-o-tolylazo-beta-naphthol. An azo dye; a dark, brownish red powder, soluble in oils, fats, and chloroform, but insoluble in water; used in medicine as a vulnerary, in histology to stain fat in tissue sections and basic proteins at high pH, and in immunoelectrophoresis.
Synonym: Biebrich scarlet red, medicinal scarlet red, scharlach red, Sudan IV.
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cherry-red spot |
The ophthalmoscopic appearance of the normal choroid beneath the fovea centralis, appearing as a red spot surrounded by white retinal oedema in central artery closure or lipid infiltration in sphingolipidosis.
Synonym: Tay's cherry-red spot.
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cherry-red spot myoclonus syndrome |
<syndrome> A neuronal storage disorder in children characterised by a cherry red spot at the macula, progressive myoclonus, and easily controlled seizures; the result of sialidase deficiency. Type 1 is characterised by normal body habitus, cherry red macula, myoclonus, and normal beta-galactosidase levels; type 2 by short stature, bony abnormalities, and deficient beta-galactosidase.
Synonym: sialidosis.
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chlorphenol red |
An acid-base indicator (MW 423, pK 6.0): yellow at pH values below 5.1, red above 6.7.
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cholera-red reaction |
A test for cholera vibrio whereby the addition of 3 or 4 drops of sulfuric acid (concentrated, chemically pure) to an 18-hour-old bouillon or peptone culture of the organism produces a colour from rose-pink to claret.
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