Culture Medium

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	Pictured is an automatic spinning device to mix tissue culture medium. Tissue culture medium provides nourishment to growing cells. In some of the slides, the hand of the scientist is visible. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		Shown are vials containing tissue culture medium which provides nourishment to growing cells. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
	The image shows a woman scientist pipetting culture medium. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).		Shown is a culture medium and the hands of a technician. In this recombinant DNA technology, the thymidine kinase gene of herpes simplex virus is being cloned in bacteria. Those bacteria that have incorporated the gene are no longer resistant to the antibiotic tetracycline. By growing the bacteria on media that includes tetracycline, the colonies that don't grow are selected (circled in slide). These bacteria have incorporated the gene that is being studied. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).
	The size of the "inhibition" zones surrounding the antibiotic-impregnated paper disks depends on the sensitivity of the bacteria present in the agar, to the antibiotic, and the antibiotic's ability to diffuse through the M�eller Hinton culture medium. Credit: CDC.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Culture Medium

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		White blood cells are then separated from the sample, mixed with tissue culture medium, incubated, and checked for chromosomal abnormalities, such as an extra X chromosome. (references)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Culture Medium

Modern Translation: Culture Medium

Language		Translations for "culture medium"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		vaekstmedium, vækstmedium, naeringssubstrat. (various references)

Dutch		cultuurmilieu, cultuurmedium, voedingsbodem (ground, soil). (various references)

Finnish		bakteerikannan kasvualusta. (various references)

French		culture-mère, milieu de culture. (various references)

German		nährboden (agars, breeding ground, fertile soil). (various references)

Greek		μητρική καλλιέργεια, περιβάλλον καλλιέργειας. (various references)

Indonesian		perbenihan. (various references)

Italian		terreno nutritivo, terreno di coltura, mezzo di coltura. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		培地 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ばいち. (various references)

Pig Latin		ulturecay ediummay

Portuguese		meio de cultura. (various references)

Spanish		medio de cultivo. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Culture Medium

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-m-m-r-t-u-u-u"
	-4 letters: deuterium, reticulum.
	-5 letters: cultured, derelict, deuteric, dulcimer, electrum, lectured, lutecium, relucted, reticule.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
culture medium	8
tissue culture medium	2
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Definition: Culture Medium