scarlet red
English
Noun
scarlet red (countable and uncountable, plural scarlet reds)
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see scarlet, red.
- An azo dye used to treat wounds and ulcers and as a histological stain.
- 2005, Avi Shai, Howard I. Maibach, Wound Healing and Ulcers of the Skin, page 219:
- Scarlet red is an aniline dye which has been used in the treatment of wounds and ulcers since the beginning of the past century.
- 1959, Ivan Nikolaevič Filipév, Jacobus Hermanus Schuurmans Stekhoven, A Manual of Agricultural Helminthology, page 195:
- The staining may also be done in a saturated solution of scarlet red in equal parts of 70% alcohol and acetone....
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Synonyms
- (azo dye): Biebrich red, Sudan IV
Derived terms
- scarlet red sulfonate