chromophil, a. Histol.
(ˈkrəʊməfɪl)
Also chroma-, -phile.
[f. chromo- 2 + -phil.]
a. = chromaffin a. b. Readily stained. Also as n., a cell that is readily stained. Also chromoˈphilic a.
| 1899 L. F. Barker Nervous Syst. x. 111 The varicosities on the dendrites in Golgi preparations von Lenhossék holds to be due to superficial collections of chromophile substance. Ibid. xi. 123 Chromophilic cells and chromophobic cells. 1902 Delafield & Prudden Path. Anat. & Histol. (ed. 6) iii. xiv. 731 With the use of the ordinary technique of Nissl, all of the cell body, excepting the chromophilic bodies, remains unstained and apparently structureless. 1909 Practitioner Feb. 195 Chromophile cells, very similar to the cells in the medulla of the supra-renals. 1910 Ibid. Jan. 35 Chromophil granules. 1913 Cunningham's Anat. (ed. 4) 1341 The chromaphil system is composed of a number of discrete masses of tissue which produce and discharge adrenin. 1920 H. E. Jordan Text-Bk. Histol. xvi. 576 The so-called ‘chromophils’ and ‘chromophobes’ of the earlier terminology (Flesch, 1880). 1926, 1953 [see chromophobe a.]. 1953 Bailey's Textbk. Histol. (ed. 13) xv. 379 In the basal part of serous gland cells (e.g., cells of salivary glands, pancreas, etc.), there is a characteristic basophilic or chromophilic material. |