chromatoid, a. Biol.
(ˈkrəʊmətɔɪd)
[f. chromato- + -oid.]
Capable of receiving a stain: said of certain grains or granules.
| 1901 G. N. Calkins Protozoa 144 The so-called chromatoid granules. 1912 E. A. Minchin Protozoa 289 Many trypanosomes contain granules in their cytoplasm which stain similarly to chromatin, so-called ‘chromatoid grains’. 1952 R. J. Ludford in G. H. Bourne Cytol. & Cell Physiol. (ed. 2) ix. 397 The larger Negri bodies..consist of a ground substance containing a central body surrounded by chromatoid granules. |