Giemsa Staining Method

Preferred Label : Giemsa Staining Method;

NCIt related terms : GIEMSA STAIN;

Alternative definition : CDISC: A microscopy staining method that utilizes Giemsa, a mixture of ethylene blue and eosin, which forms purplish-black crystals when dried. This stain preferentially binds to the phosphate groups of DNA and aggregates at areas with an increase in adenine-thymine binding, thus leading to chromosomal staining patterns that lend themselves to g-banding analysis. Additionally Giemsa can be used as a differential stain to determine microbial cell adherence to human cells as well as in the diagnosis of malaria, spirochete, and protozoal infections.;

Details

Origin ID

C85598;

UMLS CUI

C0523205;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Giemsa stain [LOINC method]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Giemsa stain (substance) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Giemsa stain method (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- giemsa stain [MeSH concept]
- giemsa staining [SNOMED Notion]
See also inter- (CISMeF)
- azure stains [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Laboratory Procedure [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Giemsa stain [LOINC method]
- Giemsa stain method (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- giemsa staining [SNOMED Notion]
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- CDISC SDTM Method Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CDISC SDTM Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Terminology [NCIt concept]

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