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trypticase

trypticase noun: a commercial bacterial growth medium.

Noun

trypticase (uncountable)

  1. A commercial bacterial growth medium
    • Bacteria were plated on trypticase soy agar (TSA), incubated at 37 °C for 15 h and subsequently diluted using the McFarland optical density standard.2015 July 3, Claudia Guldimann et al., “Increased spread and replication efficiency of Listeria monocytogenes in organotypic brain-slices is related to multilocus variable number of tandem repeat...

Words formed from trypticase

Questions about trypticase

What does trypticase mean?
Trypticase means a commercial bacterial growth medium.
What part of speech is trypticase?
Trypticase is a noun.

Words near trypticase in the dictionary

  1. tryptanthrins
  2. tryptase
  3. tryptases
  4. tryptic
  5. tryptically
  6. trypticase
  7. trypticase soy agar
  8. tryptich
  9. tryptique
  10. tryptiques
  11. tryptoline

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