inocular

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adjective

Inserted in the corner of the eye, like the antenna of certain insects.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjectiveinocular (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebiologyInserted in the corner of the eye, like the antenna of certain insects.
  2. not comparablePertaining to inoculation.

    Agglutinating antibody to the inocular strain develops.

    2018, Jean Paul Butzler, Campylobacter Infection in Man and Animals, page 204
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    A tumor which originated in a Japanese waltzing mouse was transplanted for many generations in mice of the same variety, but invariably failed to grow when inoculated into common mice. […] Susceptibility to an inocular tumor is neither, therefore, inherited in accordance with Mendel's law, nor are the results obtained from cross-breeding explained by any other known principle of inheritance.

    1910, Experiment Station Record - Volume 22, page 377

    The infected group all showed thickening of the terminal ileum and enlargement of the mesenteric lymph nodes at post-mortem examination and all had serum antibody to the inocular strain at levels of 1:320 - 1:640 compared with 1:20 and 1:40 pre-inoculation.

    1982, Ramiro Ramírez Necoechea, IPVS 82: Proceedings, page 58
noun
  1. A dose of an inoculum.

    An inocular of 1x10 ( 5 ) PLC/PRF/5 cells were injected subcutaneously into the back of athymic mice.

    1983, International Cancer Research Data Bank, ICRDB Cancergram: Oncofetal proteins - Issue 6, page 9
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    It was found that those factors consisted of the inocular size or viable unit of tubercle bacilli to be inoculated on a medium, the kind of a medium, the preparation and preservation of a medium and culture condition influenced the test results .

    1964, Nihon Igakkai. Sōkai, Abstract of the Proceedings, page 389

    Percentage survival curves of an inocular of a laboratory culture of E. coli into seawater collected in August .

    1970, Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Technical Report - Volumes 215-219

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Germanic*in
  3. Proto-West Germanic*in
  4. Old Englishin
  5. Old Englishin-
  6. Middle Englishin-
  7. Englishin-
  8. Englishocular
  9. Englishinocular

From in- + ocular.

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