inoculable

[ih-nok-yuh-luh-buhl]

adjective

1. capable of being inoculated.

inoculable

/ ɪˈnɒkjʊləbəl /

adjective

1. capable of being inoculated

Other Word Forms

• inoculability noun
• uninoculable adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of inoculable¹

First recorded in 1840–50; inocul(ate) + -able

Example Sentences

Pasteur supposes that anthrax-infected food is only injurious when there are inoculable sores in the mouth or pharynx, but it seems as if in that case the disease would be first shown at these points and in the nearest lymphatic glands rather than in the bowels, the rule for the inoculated anthrax being to develop first in the tissues and thence to reach the blood-vessels through the lymphatics.

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The contents of the bullous lesions which appear upon the erysipelatous surface are inoculable; and the disease has in this way been transferred not only to men, but also, by Orth and others, to the lower animals, and even from one of the latter to another of the same species.

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By this time it had come to be recognized that syphilis was inoculable by the blood.

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This form is said not to be inoculable.

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When the disturbance produced by nosocomial malaria is not at an early stage arrested by change of locality, the secretions of patients affected become inoculable.

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