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Noun

hemicyanine ‎(plural hemicyanines)

1. (organic chemistry) Any of a class of dyes having two aromatic groups linked by an ethylene group
   • 2015 December 23, “Supervised Machine Learning for Classification of the Electrophysiological Effects of Chronotropic Drugs on Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes”, in PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0144572:

     This study uses di-4-ANE(F)PPTEA, a hemicyanine class dye, that embeds itself in the cellular membranes of hiPS-CM and exhibits a proportional increase in fluorescence intensity as the voltage across the membrane increases.