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inocular

inocular adjective: inserted in the corner of the eye, like the antenna of certain insects.

Adjective

inocular (not comparable)

  1. Inserted in the corner of the eye, like the antenna of certain insects.
  2. Pertaining to inoculation.
    • 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...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

inocular

  1. A dose of an inoculum.
    • 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

Examples of inocular in a sentence

  • Agglutinating antibody to the inocular strain develops.2018, Jean Paul Butzler, Campylobacter Infection in Man and Animals, page 204:
  • 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:

Origin of inocular

From in- + ocular.

Questions about inocular

What does inocular mean?
Inocular means inserted in the corner of the eye, like the antenna of certain insects.
How do you use inocular in a sentence?
Agglutinating antibody to the inocular strain develops.
What part of speech is inocular?
Inocular can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near inocular in the dictionary

  1. inocula
  2. inoculability
  3. inoculable
  4. inoculant
  5. inoculants
  6. inocular
  7. inoculatable
  8. inoculate
  9. inoculated
  10. inoculates
  11. inoculating

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