Associations to the word «Hematoxylin»

Wiktionary

HEMATOXYLIN, noun. (medicine) (organic compound) A phenolic compound having the chemical formula C16H14O6, used to make dye for staining tissue samples; extracted from the heart of the bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats