inoculum
- noun
- /ɪˈnɒkjʊləm/
- Specialized
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inoculo
- Some makers require the addition of specialized inoculum to their reactors.
- inoculum size
- bacterial inoculum
- inoculum of bacteria
Examples
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The researchers used this information to make an inoculum, or spore preparation, of the fungus using YST plants grown in their greenhouse.
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The scientist prepared an inoculum that contained a mix of beneficial bacteria to promote plant growth.
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The inoculum was used for all four runs done each day and was refrigerated between runs.
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Each study also included a pathogenicity control for the virus inoculum.
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The fungus can be seed-borne, which often becomes the source of primary inoculum.
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The inoculum was quickly mixed into the chicken salad with the aid of a sterile pipette tip.
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A decrease in colony count by 99.9% from the original bacterial inoculum was taken as MBC.
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Inoculum was prepared by growing the selected isolates in glucose peptone broth media.
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The infecting inoculum is small, and therefore defects in opsonic function may be critical in influencing the outcome.
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The antibody titer reported is the reciprocal of the dilution of serum that inhibited 90% of the test virus inoculum.
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Synonyms
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A substance put into animals or people to help protect them from disease
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Etymology
The word inoculum comes from Latin parts in- 'in' and oculus 'eye', because gardeners once used a plant 'eye', a small bud, to graft into another plant. So an inoculum is a small thing 'put in' to start growth or protection, like a tiny sample placed in a body or a culture to begin an immune response or a new colony.