Medical Dictionary

negative staining

noun

Medical Definition of NEGATIVE STAINING

:  a method of demonstrating the form of small objects (as bacteria) by surrounding them with a stain that they do not take up so that they appear as sharply outlined unstained bright bodies on a colored ground

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