culture medium

noun

, Bacteriology.

1. medium ( def 9 ).

culture medium

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of culture medium¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

In this work, the researchers put the nanoparticles in the culture medium that bathes the tissue samples—a technique they could also use in future experiments on the space station, which has become a magnet for researchers studying diseases of aging.

From MIT Technology Review

The cost is dropping from the early days, when startups in the R&D stage relied on repurposed cell culture media taken from biomedical research.

From MIT Technology Review

Cultures were made of these samples, and bacilli of different types were developed in the culture medium in a short time.

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Here the germs find lodgment, here they find a culture medium—at the gateway of the human system.

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This serum is such a good culture medium that an acute abscess is likely to form—the acute bursitis of the surgeons.

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Nearly all species of plants can be grown to full maturity in the entire absence of these elements from their culture medium.

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Such toxins being set free in the culture medium are often known as extracellular.

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