culture mediumnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkʌl.tʃə ˌmiː.di.əm/us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ ˌmiː.di.əm/plural culture media specializeda substance containing nutrients in which cells or microorganisms can be grown
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Laboratory equipment
- bell jar
- Buchner funnel
- Bunsen burner
- burette
- calorimeter
- collecting flask
- condenser
- conical flask
- electron microscope
- evaporating dish
- flame test
- flask
- graduated cylinder
- oscilloscope
- particle accelerator
- pipette
- retort stand
- siphon
- test tube
- transducer
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Examples from literature
- Another method of attacking this problem consists in introducing blood from yellow fever patients or recent cadavers into various "culture media" for the purpose of cultivating any germ that might be present.
- It closely resembles the typhoid bacillus, but is distinguished from it by its behaviour in artificial culture media.
- It has been found possible by varying in many ways the character of the culture medium and temperature to grow under artificial conditions outside of the body most, if not all, of the bacteria which cause disease.
- This large and very irregular surface is bathed in fluid which is a good culture medium and but a single layer of cells covers it.