(n.) Liquid in which flesh (and sometimes other substances, as barley or rice) has been boiled; thin or simple soup.
Example Sentences:
(1) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(2) 137 internal jugular vein cannulae from 113 patients undergoing open heart surgery were cultured using standard broth culture and a semiquantitative culture technique.
(3) There was an overlap of approximately 30% of broths identified as containing in vitro bioactivity by the two assay systems.
(4) Results with Brain Heart Infusion broth were unsatisfactory.
(5) The test organism, grown under anaerobic conditions in Trypticase soy broth, was diluted in buffered salt solution, and about 2 x 10(4) cells were suspended in 10 ml of an aerated broth.
(6) A total of 161 samples from genital sources were evaluated using two different methods for genital Mycoplasma isolation: inoculation to urea broth, arginine broth and A7 solid media (standard method) and a new enzymatic method (Mycoscreen Oxoid).
(7) A broth-dilution method for performing antimicrobial susceptibility tests on anaerobic bacteria has been proposed.
(8) The bacterial growth with the biosynthesis of M protein in synthetic medium was obtained by successive adaptation in steady-state culture with decreasing amounts of Todd-Hewitt broth.
(9) The inoculum level of infected spores in nutrient broth-yeast extract-glucose medium affected the transducing efficiency of SP-10 in lysates of these cultures.
(10) By adding an XV strip to the eugonic broth or substituting Levinthal broth, the standard Autobac I susceptibility testing system may be used to determine susceptibility of Haemophilus influenzae to antimicrobial agents.
(11) It also permits small portions of pre-enrichment broth cultures to be retained for subsequent individual analysis if positive tests are found.
(12) Stationary-phase cells of Escherichia coli were enumerated by the pour plate method on Trypticase soy agar containing 0.3% yeast extract (TSYA), violet red-bile agar, and desoxycholate-lactose agar, and by the most-probable-number method in Brilliant Green-bile broth and lauryl sulfate broth.
(13) To determine when the infant gut was colonized with PPA-producing bacteria, we cultured stool in prereduced thioglycollate broth from 93 apparently healthy infants.
(14) QC range for H. Influenzae ATCC 49247 were established using multiple HTM agar and broth base lots, three disk lots for each drug, and a number of test replicates consistent with the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards M23-T guideline.
(15) A marked decrease in the coefficient of oleandomycin distribution in the system of the fermentation broth filtrate-butyl acetate was observed during the transfer from the 1st to the following extraction stages.
(16) Broth dilution susceptibility tests were made on several species of Candida and one species of Torulopsis.
(17) The incorporation of dextran into broth for the detection of bacteraemia by conductance monitoring is recommended to eliminate the effect of sedimenting blood cells which may mask early signals from bacteria.
(18) Quality control parameters for broth microdilution and disk diffusion susceptibility tests were defined and the interpretive criteria for disk diffusion tests reviewed.
(19) For quantitative measurement of Coli and Coliform microorganisms five different culture media were used (Endoagar, Hexachlorophene Endoagar, Desoxycholatcitrat Agar, Violet Red Bile Agar and Brilliant Green Broth).
(20) At the conclusion of 817 abdominal operations, duplicate swabs were taken from the subcutaneous tissues for microbiological examination; one swab was transported to the laboratory in Stuart's thioglycollate medium and the other immediately incubated in Robertson's cooked meat broth.
Consomme
Definition:
(n.) A clear soup or bouillion boiled down so as to be very rich.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of MSG ingestion in consomme on the plasma glutamate concentration response was studied in normal adult subjects.
(2) In the first set of experiments, 300 ml beef consomme soup with or without 60 g margarine was fed to each of six volunteers, followed 20 minutes later by either a low fat solid meal or a preselected appetising meal.
(3) But I remember that I'd made a consomme, very clear and gorgeous, from some prawn shells.
(4) Moreover, addition of 360 mg monosodium glutamate to beef consomme soup had no effect on the acid secretory or gastrin response to the meal.
(5) Subjects consumed soup (beef consomme) preloads of a fixed size containing different concentrations of monosodium L-glutamate (MSG).
(6) Plasma glutamate concentrations in human subjects are markedly lower when monosodium L-glutamate (MSG) is ingested in consomme with starch than when ingested in consomme alone.