scarlet red
noun1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scarlet, red.
2
An azo dye used to treat wounds and ulcers and as a histological stain.
- Scarlet red is an aniline dye which has been used in the treatment of wounds and ulcers since the beginning of the past century.2005, Avi Shai, Howard I. Maibach, Wound Healing and Ulcers of the Skin, page 219:
- The staining may also be done in a saturated solution of scarlet red in equal parts of 70% alcohol and acetone....1959, Ivan Nikolaevič Filipév, Jacobus Hermanus Schuurmans Stekhoven, A Manual of Agricultural Helminthology, page 195:
- Synonyms
- Biebrich red, Sudan IV
- Derived terms
- scarlet red sulfonate