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What is Giemsa?

What is Giemsa? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (genetics) A complex of stains used to investigate chromosomes; a mixture of eosin and methylene azure in glycerol and methanol.
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Differential Staining with Orcein, Giemsa, CMA, and DAPI for comparative chromosome study of 12 species of Australian Drosera.
The organisms stained faintly with Giemsa and were negative by Grocott methenamine silver, periodic acid-Schiff, and mucicarmine stains.
On histologic examination, granules exhibited a typical, although faint, metachromasia with toluidine blue and Giemsa stains.
Organisms are large, usually located in a perinuclear or subnuclear, intraepithelial location, and stain positively with Giemsa, PAS, and methenamine silver stains.
Giemsa and toluidine stains revealed metachromatic granules in neoplastic cells.
Cytoplasm was abundant and intensely basophilic with Giemsa stain.

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