culture medium

American  

noun

Bacteriology.

1. medium.

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culture medium British  

noun

1. a nutritive substance, such as an agar gel or liquid medium, in which cultures of bacteria, fungi, animal cells, or plant cells are grown

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Etymology

Origin of culture medium

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

The team were able to achieve this by combining peptides with a culture medium that is known to recreate natural sputum and which can be easily infected.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2023

If the rice is left to cool and sit at room temperature, the spores grow into bacteria, which will increase in numbers quickly as rice is a good Bacillus culture medium when at room temperature.

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2023

To overcome that obstacle, the scientists grew the human cells in a newly devised culture medium that returned them to an earlier developmental stage.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 7, 2023

Around the same time Loeb's book was published, French physician Alexis Carrel developed techniques for growing tissues in a culture medium: a kind of unformed living material.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

They could grow floating in a culture medium that was constantly stirred by a magnetic device, an important technique Gey developed, now called growing in suspension.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot