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  • noun Plural form of staining, gerund of stain.

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Examples

  • Histological techniques, such as fixation procedures and tissue stainings (hematoxylin or carmine) had been introduced in the middle of the 19th century.

    Life and Discoveries of Camillo Golgi 1998

  • The improvements in the techniques of visualisation of the gene products by in situ hybridisation and antibody stainings complemented the transplantation studies done earlier, resulting in several exciting discoveries concerning the establishment of gradients in the extracellular space and by nuclear localisation by Dave Stein and Siegfried Roth.

    Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard - Autobiography 1996

  • The color plates have triumphantly surmounted the difficulties of reproducing Schiele's compositions, which often juxtapose brilliant, harsh colors with subtly tinctured stainings, especially in the delicate striations of his sufferers 'flesh.

    Cultural Hothouse Schorske, Carl E. 1975

  • It was in the colors and stainings applied to the gables and other parts that the greatest care had been taken.

    The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

  • Her face was so alabaster pale that the staring, startled eyes, dark blue or brown, and the faint rose of the parted lips, were like colour stainings on a white mask; and it had a strange delicacy, truth, and pathos, such as only suffering brings.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Her face was so alabaster pale that the staring, startled eyes, dark blue or brown, and the faint rose of the parted lips, were like colour stainings on a white mask; and it had a strange delicacy, truth, and pathos, such as only suffering brings.

    Five Tales John Galsworthy 1900

  • To them, as first leaders of ornamental design, belongs, of right, the praise of glistenings in gold, piercings in ivory, stainings in purple, burnishings in dark blue steel; of the fantasy of the Arabian roof -- quartering of the Christian shield, -- rubric and arabesque of

    The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

  • To them, as first leaders of ornamental design, belongs, of right, the praise of glistenings in gold, piercings in ivory, stainings in purple, burnishings in dark blue steel; of the fantasy of the Arabian roof, -- quartering of the Christian shield, -- rubric and arabesque of

    Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859

  • As expected, all cells are positive to both stainings.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michele Mishto et al. 2010

  • Iron deposition and alveolar septal capillary density (ASCD) were evaluated on histologic sections with hematoxylin-eosin, iron, elastin and CD34 stainings.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Kyung-Hee Kim 2010

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