[
UK
/ɪnˈɒkjʊləm/
]
NOUN
- a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease
How To Use inoculum In A Sentence
- When conditions becomes favorable for rust development, the inoculum is always available.
- Newly introduced trees require inoculation; inoculum may be gotten from the soil of black locust stands, or from NFTA. Chapter 10
- When conditions becomes favorable for rust development, the inoculum is always available.
- The inoculum used for medical device applications is typically Bacillus spores.
- The researchers took an inoculum from the hypersaline, alkaline Mono lake and grew it in serial dilutions so that the medium contained progressively increasing amounts of arsenic (As) substituting for phosphorus (P). Athena Andreadis, Ph.D.: Arsenic and Odd Lace
- These two methods require stringent control of the inoculum size and hence are not optimal for direct sensitivity testing from concentrated clinical specimens.
- Plants currently restricted to south-facing slopes and warm springs (to some extent analogues of future warmer habitats and hot spots of biodiversity) north of their main distribution areas are likely to provide an "inoculum" for rapid colonization of surrounding habitats when climate becomes warmer, although they themselves are likely to be displaced from their current niches by less diverse shrub – thicket communities. Recent and projected changes in arctic species distributions and potential ranges
- Pratylenchus coffea was monoxenically reproduced on carrot disk culture, and the effect of time, temperature, and inoculum density on reproduction were discussed in the study.
- If long-term microbial survival is possible on Mars, then past and future explorations of Mars may provide the microbial inoculum for seeding Mars with terrestrial life," say the researchers. Space News From SpaceDaily.Com
- The inoculum size and incubation conditions were the same as mentioned earlier.