Word.ws English Dictionary

preculturing

preculturing is the present participle and gerund of preculture.

Meaning of preculture

Verb

preculture (third-person singular simple present precultures, present participle preculturing, simple past and past participle precultured)

  1. To 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

See all 2 meanings of preculture

Questions about preculturing

What is preculturing the present participle and gerund of?
Preculturing is the present participle and gerund of preculture.

Words near preculturing in the dictionary

  1. precultural
  2. preculturally
  3. preculture
  4. precultured
  5. precultures
  6. preculturing
  7. precum
  8. precummed
  9. precumming
  10. precums
  11. precuneal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: preculturing (page history and authors); preculture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “preculturing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/preculturing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.