Meanings
- not comparablePertaining to inoculation.
Agglutinating antibody to the inocular strain develops.
2018, Jean Paul Butzler, Campylobacter Infection in Man and Animals, page 2042 more examples
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 377The 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
- 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 92 more examples
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 389Percentage 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
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Proto-Germanic*in
- Proto-West Germanic*in
- Old Englishin
- Old Englishin-
- Middle Englishin-
- Englishin-
- Englishocular
- Englishinocular
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