inocular
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Inserted in the corner of the eye, like the antenna of certain insects.
adj
Example Sentences
- "A tumor which originated in a Japanese waltzing mouse was transplanted for many generations in mice of the same variety, but invariably failed to grow when inoculated into common mice. […] Susceptibility to an inocular tumor is neither, therefore, inherited in accordance with Mendel's law, nor are the results obtained from cross-breeding explained by any other known principle of inheritance."
- "The infected group all showed thickening of the terminal ileum and enlargement of the mesenteric lymph nodes at post-mortem examination and all had serum antibody to the inocular strain at levels of 1:320 - 1:640 compared with 1:20 and 1:40 pre-inoculation."
- "Agglutinating antibody to the inocular strain develops."
- "It was found that those factors consisted of the inocular size or viable unit of tubercle bacilli to be inoculated on a medium, the kind of a medium, the preparation and preservation of a medium and culture condition influenced the test results ."
- "Percentage survival curves of an inocular of a laboratory culture of E. coli into seawater collected in August ."
- "An inocular of 1x10 ( 5 ) PLC/PRF/5 cells were injected subcutaneously into the back of athymic mice."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English ocular English inocular From in- + ocular.