scarlet red

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scarlet red (countable and uncountable, plural scarlet reds)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see scarlet,‎ red.
  2. An azo dye used to treat wounds and ulcers and as a histological stain.
    • 2005, Avi Shai, Howard I. Maibach, Wound Healing and Ulcers of the Skin[1], page 219:
      Scarlet red is an aniline dye which has been used in the treatment of wounds and ulcers since the beginning of the past century.
    • 1959, Ivan Nikolaevič Filipév, Jacobus Hermanus Schuurmans Stekhoven, A Manual of Agricultural Helminthology[2], page 195:
      The staining may also be done in a saturated solution of scarlet red in equal parts of 70% alcohol and acetone....

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