preculture

plural precultures

1. biologyA preliminary culture; a culture prepared in advance of the main experiment

   Second, some of the precultures used by Iglesias-Rodriguez et al., particularly those in high-CO₂ treatments, may have experienced nutrient limitation at the time of transfer to the experimental flasks.

   2008 December 5, Ulf Riebesell et al., “Comment on "Phytoplankton Calcification in a High-CO₂ World"”, in Science, volume 322, number 5907

present singular third person precultures · participle present preculturing · participle past precultured · past precultured

1. biologyTo culture in advance, such as before the main phase of an experiment

   For fresh, nonfrozen hepatocytes precultured for 24 h prior to being plated on collagen, the albumin secretion rate was 0.88 ± 0.62 mg/ml/h.

   2001, T.B. Darr, A. Hubel, “Postthaw Viability of Precultured Hepatocytes”, in Cryobiology, volume 42, number 1