BLOOD AGAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blood agar mean? 

• BLOOD AGAR (noun)
  The noun BLOOD AGAR has 1 sense:

1. a culture medium containing whole blood as the nutrient

  Familiarity information: BLOOD AGAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOOD AGAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A culture medium containing whole blood as the nutrient

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("blood agar" is a kind of...):

agar; nutrient agar (any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent)

 Context examples 

A bacterium that is assigned to the genus Streptococcus that is able to reduce the iron content in hemoglobin in red blood cells, thus producing green colored colonies on blood agar plates.

(Alpha-Hemolytic Streptococcus, NCI Thesaurus)

A bacterium that is assigned to the genus Streptococcus that is able to facilitate the complete rupturing of red blood cells, thus producing wide, clear, zones around colonies on blood agar plates.

(Beta-Hemolytic Streptococcus, NCI Thesaurus)

This bacteria is catalase negative, hemolytic on human blood agar plates and grows best in culture with added carbon dioxide and blood.

(Arcanobacterium haemolyticum, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is oxidase and catalase positive, urease and alkaline phosphatase negative, nonmotile, relatively halointolerant, susceptible to penicillin, grows on blood agar or nutrient agar and does not reduce nitrate.

(Moraxella lincolnii, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, catalase and cytochrome oxidase negative, nonsporulating, and alpha hemolytic on blood agar.

(Lactococcus garvieae, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is indole negative, hydrolyzes starch, but not gelatin, requires vitamin K and hemin for growth, hemolytic on rabbit's blood agar, reduces neutral red and resazurin, produces hydrogen sulfide after 5 days, and does not utilize lactate, threonine or gluconate.

(Parabacteroides merdae, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is nonmotile, catalase and oxidase positive, non-pigmented, alpha-hemolytic only on sheep's blood agar, does not utilize carbohydrates, reduces nitrite, but not nitrate, does not synthesize polysaccharides, and does not require salts to grow.

(Neisseria weaverii, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is oxidase and catalase positive, grows best on blood agar medium or chocolate medium, is non-hemolytic, produces acid from glucose, but not from maltose, fructose, sucrose, mannose or lactose, does not synthesize polysaccharides, and reduces nitrite but not nitrate.

(Neisseria gonorrhoeae, NCI Thesaurus)