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Definition: Inoculum |
InoculumNoun1. A substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Environment | 1. Bacteria or fungi injected into compost to start biological action. 2. A medium containing organisms, usually bacteria or a virus, that is introduced into cultures or living organisms. (references) |
Health | The spores or tissues of a pathogen that serve to initiate disease in a plant. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: InoculumSynonym: inoculant (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: size of inoculum (medicine). |
Crosswords: Inoculum |
| Specialty definitions using "inoculum": axenic production. (references) |
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 | Legionella pneumophilia grows well on this medium, and the colonies take on a circular off-white growth pattern. This is day 6, at 36 degrees C, and a 1/5,000 dilution of a standard inoculum. Credit: CDC. |  | Here is colonial growth on day 6, at 36 degrees C, and using a 1/5,000 dilution of a standard inoculum. Credit: CDC. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A small inoculum (10 to 200 organisms) is sufficient to cause infection. (references) | |
Those who develop diarrhea have ingested an inoculum of virulent organisms sufficiently large to overcome individual defense mechanisms, resulting in symptoms. (references) | ||
These include the virus variant, the dose of virus inoculum, the route and location of exposure,as well as individual host factors, such as age and host immune defenses. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Inoculum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Inoculum" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
inoculum | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "inoculum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 接种物 (inoculant). (various references) | |
Danish | inokulum, podemaengde (size of inoculum). (various references) | |
Dutch | geadapteerde entmassa (acclimatized inoculum), geadapteerd inoculum (acclimatized inoculum). (various references) | |
Finnish | inokulaatti, ymppi (graft, grafted vine, size of inoculum, spawn), siirroste (size of inoculum). (various references) | |
French | inoculum (size of inoculum), inoculat (size of inoculum). (various references) | |
German | Inokulum (size of inoculum), Impfstoff (vaccine, serum), Impfmenge (size of inoculum). (various references) | |
Greek | μόλυσμα (taint). (various references) | |
Italian | inoculo (size of inoculum), organo di infezione. (various references) | |
Korean | 접정물. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inoculumay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inoculação (inoculation, transfusion), inóculo. (various references) | |
Romanian | substanţã pentru inoculare. (various references) | |
Russian | прививочный материал. (various references) | |
Spanish | inoculo (size of inoculum), inóculo. (various references) | |
Swedish | ympkultur. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chất để tiêm chủng (inoculant), chất để chủng (inoculant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inoculum": inoculums. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-l-m-n-o-u-u" | |
-2 letters: column, conium, cumuli, moulin, muonic, uncoil. | |
-3 letters: colin, cumin, linum, locum, mucin, nicol, oculi, onium. | |
-4 letters: cion, clon, coil, coin, coni, culm, icon, limn, limo, lino, lion, loci, loin, milo, moil, muni, muon, noil, unci, unco. | |
-5 letters: col, con, cum, ion, lin, lum, mil, moc, mol, mon, mun, nil, nim, nom, oil, ulu. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-l-m-n-o-u-u" | |
+1 letter: homunculi, inoculums. | |
+2 letters: calumnious, cumulation, involucrum. | |
+3 letters: cumulations, cumulonimbi, multicolumn, multicounty, outmuscling, unmalicious. | |
+4 letters: accumulation, calumniously, contumelious, cumulonimbus, micronucleus, mucilaginous. | |
+5 letters: accumulations, impecuniously, multifunction, noncumulative, uncustomarily, unmaliciously. | |
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