Readily taking up or staining with dyes and pigments; having an affinity for colored substances.
From 'chromatophilia' + suffix '-ic' (relating to). The adjectival form used to describe structures with color-attracting properties.
Cancer cells are often intensely chromatophilic—they grab dyes so eagerly that they show up darker under a microscope than normal cells, which was one of the first ways pathologists could spot tumors.
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