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

But in the new studies, the researchers grew monkey embryos in small vials of culture medium, which allowed the embryos to grow in three dimensions as they would inside the womb.

From Scientific American • May 15, 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