acid-fast

Definitions of acid-fast
  1. adjective
    not easily decolorized by acid solutions; pertains to micro-organisms (especially the tubercle bacillus that causes tuberculosis)
    synonyms:
    imperviable, impervious
    not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
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