CULTURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cultured mean? 

• CULTURED (adjective)
  The adjective CULTURED has 1 sense:

1. marked by refinement in taste and manners

  Familiarity information: CULTURED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CULTURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by refinement in taste and manners

Synonyms:

civilised; civilized; cultivated; cultured; genteel; polite

Context example:

polite society

Similar:

refined ((used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel)

 Context examples 

Embryonic stem cells, which have been cultured under in vitro conditions that allow proliferation without differentiation for months to years.

(Embryonic stem cell line, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Epidermal growth factor affects the differentiation of specific cells in vivo and is a potent mitogenic factor for a variety of cultured cells of both ectodermal and mesodermal origin.

(Epidermal growth factor, NCI Thesaurus)

Procedures for extraction and collection of viral vectors from cultured cells.

(Final Harvest and Pooling of Viral Vectors, NCI Thesaurus)

Rounded collections of cells that arise when embryonic stem cells are cultured in suspension.

(Embryoid bodies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The number of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) that migrate between or beneath a co-cultured feeder cell layer and become trapped.

(Cobblestone Area-Forming Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Cultured cells may be used to diagnose infections, to test new drugs, and in research.

(Cell Strain, NCI Dictionary)

A hallmark of CD183 is its prominent expression in in vitro cultured effector/memory T cells, and in T cells present in many types of inflamed tissues.

(Chemokine (C-X-C Motif) Receptor 3, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF1) is a transcription factor found in mammalian cells cultured under reduced oxygen tension that plays an essential role in cellular and systemic homeostatic responses to hypoxia.

(Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1, NCI Thesaurus)

Detection of antigens in tissues is known as immunohistochemistry, while detection in cultured cells is generally termed immunocytochemistry.

(Immunohistochemistry, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is acid fast, nonmotile with optimum growth on Lowenstein-Jensen medium, urease and catalase positive, niacin and nitrate negative, and produces pigment when cultured and exposed to light.

(Mycobacterium marinum, NCI Thesaurus)