picrosirius red

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Noun

picrosirius red (uncountable)

  1. A red stain used to visualize collagen.
    • 2015, Neha Modak et al., “Comparative Study of Clinical Staging of Oral Submucous Fibrosis with Qualitative Analysis of Collagen Fibers Under Polarized Microscopy”, in Iranian Journal of Pathology, volume 10:
      Therefore the aim was to correlate the clinical, functional and histopathological staging and to analyze the polarization colors and thickness of the collagen fibers in different stages of OSMF using picrosirius red stain under polarizing microscopy so as to assess the severity of disease.