CULTURE MEDIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does culture medium mean? 

• CULTURE MEDIUM (noun)
  The noun CULTURE MEDIUM has 1 sense:

1. (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms

  Familiarity information: CULTURE MEDIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CULTURE MEDIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

culture medium; medium

Hypernyms ("culture medium" is a kind of...):

food; nutrient (any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue)

Domain category:

bacteriology (the branch of medical science that studies bacteria in relation to disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "culture medium"):

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

 Context examples 

A method for growing microorganisms in liquid culture media.

(Microbial Liquid Culture, NCI Thesaurus)

A method for growing microorganisms in solid culture media.

(Microbial Solid Culture, NCI Thesaurus)

The Media Preparation Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with a quality-controlled supply of culture media, reagents, and preparations.

(Media Preparation Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Culture medium may also include growth factors added to produce desired changes in the cells.

(Culture medium, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

When they added a chemical to the culture media to turn on the gene, the cells produced high levels of IL-1Ra.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

A type of culture in which cells are grown and are continuously fed new culture media.

(Perfusion Culture, NCI Thesaurus)

Having demonstrated the effectiveness of this process in their study, the researchers observe: “We collected exosomes of the same type of cancerous cell that was to be treated, we loaded them with the palladium catalyst and returned them to the culture medium. There, thanks to their selective tropism, the exosomes deliver the catalyst to the original cell.

(Scientists successfully deliver “Trojan horse” catalysts into cancerous tumour cells to destroy them from within, Universities of Granada)

This species is motile and urease positive in MIU culture media, oxidase, catalase, and citrate positive, indole negative, does not produce hydrogen sulfide and sodium citrate is its only carbon source B. bronchispetica is found in the respiratory tract of domestic and wild animals where it is pathogenic, but rarely is found in humans.

(Bordetella bronchiseptica, NCI Thesaurus)

Kidney glomeruli — constituent microscopic parts of the organ- were generated from human embryonic stem cells grown in plastic laboratory culture dishes containing a nutrient broth known as culture medium, containing molecules to promote kidney development.

(Scientists Create Functioning Kidney Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)