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trypticase soy agar

trypticase soy agar proper noun: a growth medium for culturing moderately to non-fastidious bacteria.

Proper noun

trypticase soy agar

  1. A growth medium for culturing moderately to non-fastidious bacteria.
    • This procedure was repeated with distilled water instead of the trypticase soy agar.1969, Public Health Monograph No. 78: A Study of the Application of Laminar Flow Ventilation to Operating Rooms, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
    • Using sterile forceps, aseptically remove the stainless steel strip from the bottle and place the strip on a 9 ±2 ml layer of solidified, sterile trypticase soy agar contained in a 100 mm diameter Petri plate. Add 20 ml of sterile molten (50°C) trypticase soy agar to completely cover the stainless...1973, G. Briggs Phillips, Robert S. Runkle, Biomedical Applications of Laminar Airflow, 2019 eBook Edition, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), unnumbered page
    Synonyms:
    TSA, tryptic soy agar

Synonyms of trypticase soy agar

  • TSA
  • tryptic soy agar

Questions about trypticase soy agar

What does trypticase soy agar mean?
Trypticase soy agar means a growth medium for culturing moderately to non-fastidious bacteria.
What part of speech is trypticase soy agar?
Trypticase soy agar is a proper noun.

Words near trypticase soy agar in the dictionary

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

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