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Blood Agar

Definition: Blood Agar

Blood Agar

Noun

1. A culture medium containing whole blood as the nutrient.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Crosswords: Blood Agar

Specialty definitions using "blood agar": Enterococcus faecium. (references)

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Photo Album: Blood Agar

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Bacillus anthracis Gamma phage lysis on sheep blood agar, the culture is grown at 35 degrees centigrade without carbon dioxide. Credit: CDC.

Blood agar plate culture of Brucella suis. Credit: CDC.

Sheep blood agar plate culture of non-hemolytic Bacillus anthracis colonies and hemolytic Bacillus cereus colonies. Credit: CDC.

Note the presence of rough colonies on the blood agar medium (right), and smooth colonies on the bicarbonate agar medium (left). Credit: CDC.

Cultured Bacillus anthracis positive encapsulation test. Rough colonies on blood agar (right), and smooth colonies on bicarbonate agar(left). Credit: CDC.

  

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Blood Agar

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

blood agar

8

blood agar plate

3
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Anagrams: Blood Agar

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-g-l-o-o-r"

-3 letters: aboard, aboral, abroad, dagoba, gooral, robalo.

-4 letters: adobo, agora, algor, argal, argol, blood, board, bolar, boral, broad, brood, dobla, dobra, dobro, dolor, drool, goral, graal, labor, labra, largo, lobar.

-5 letters: agar, alar, alba, alga, baal, bald, bard, boar, bola, bold, bolo, boor, bora, brad, brag, broo, dago, darb, door, drab, drag, gala, gaol.

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Alternative Orthography: Blood Agar


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 6F 6F 64      41 67 61 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01101111 01101111 01100100 00100000 01000001 01100111 01100001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

B l o o d   A g a r

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 006F 006F 0064      0041 0067 0061 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3678818170235736784

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