Gram-positive Definition

grampäzətiv
adjective
Designating bacteria that retain the color stain.
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Origin of Gram-positive

  • From Gram (“a surname") + positive, after Danish bacteriologist Hans Christian Gram, who invented the Gram staining method.

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