(v. t.) Fig.: To introduce into the mind; -- used especially of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue; as, to inoculate one with treason or infidelity.
(v. t.) To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
(v. t.) To insert a foreign bud into; as, to inoculate a tree.
(v. t.) To communicate a disease to ( a person ) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox,rabies, etc. See Vaccinate.
(v. i.) To graft by inserting buds.
(v. i.) To communicate disease by inoculation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
(2) Charcoal particles coated with the lipid extract were prepared and the suspension inoculated intravenously into mice.
(3) The treatment was started either immediately or delayed for 48 h after peritoneal inoculation.
(4) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
(5) This suggested that some of the cell population became metabolically inactive at a very early stage, possibly owing to suboptimal conditions of growth.Glycine, lysozyme and lithium chloride initiated lysis of BCG growth in the aforementioned media 24-48 hours after inoculation.
(6) A total of 28 cell lines were selected for Geneticin - resistance and inoculated into the footpads of syngeneic animals following co-transfection with pSV2neo and genomic DNA, or transfection with plasmid constructs containing neo and the activated Ha-ras oncogene.
(7) None of the animals injected with either CD4+ or CD8+ T cells became overtly diabetic during the 30 days of observation whereas 8 of 23 mice inoculated with a mixture of the two subsets developed glycosuria and hyperglycemia.
(8) The hypothesis that experimentally determined survival times of Treponema pallidum in stored donor blood could be related to the number of treponemes initially present in the treponeme-blood mixtures was investigated by inoculating rabbits with three graded doses of treponemes suspended in donor blood and stored at 4 degrees C for various periods of time.
(9) Microfilariae were detected fro 2-136 days after inoculation.
(10) In contrast, albino rats and rabbits failed to succumb to overt disease by subcutaneous and intraperitoneal routes of inoculation.
(11) A large number of recently isolated bacterial pathogens were tested for susceptibility to cephalexin and cephaloglycin by the replica inoculating method.
(12) Five control rabbits developed severe diarrhea within 72 h after inoculation with enterotoxigenic E. coli B16-4.
(13) Specific antisera prepared in rabbits or in foot-pad-inoculated chickens were adequate for culture typing.
(14) It also showed weak inhibition of the solid type of Ehrlich carcinoma and prolonged the survival period of mice inoculated with L-1210 cells.
(15) Mice inoculated with tumor cells in the 10 NTX group had an acceleration (18%) in the latency of tumor appearance and, 2 weeks after cell inoculation, 70% of the mice in this group had tumors, in contrast to 10% of the controls.
(16) The viruses shed by the volunteers were indistinguishable from those with which they were inoculated.
(17) Precipitating antibodies were found in both lines; they first appeared 7 days after inoculation in P-line birds and 14 days after inoculation in N-line birds, but thereafter there was no difference between the two genetic lines.
(18) No histological changes in the intestines were observed in the fasted poults whereas definite lesions were observed in the BCDCV-inoculated poults.
(19) Cultures of these isolants were inoculated experimentally into turkeys and produced lesions of chlamydiosis that were indistinguishable from those caused by the strain originally recovered from diseases turkeys on the premises.
(20) Over a range of concentrations, DMD 368 produced 100% mortality while one Mel 3 strain, DMD 369, produced no mortality by 21 days after inoculation.
Inosculate
Definition:
(v. i.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose.
(v. i.) To intercommunicate; to interjoin.
(v. t.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body.
(v. t.) To unite intimately; to cause to become as one.
Example Sentences:
(1) Injection of contrast material allowed us to demonstrate that these vessels are functional, since they inosculate into efficient pulmonary arteries ending in the respiratory units.
(2) According to anomalies of mutual disposition of twin glands they can be classified into separated, connected and inosculated ones.
(3) For the first week or so, they live by diffusion and inosculation, and then neovascularization enables them to continue viability.
(4) Of the 115 retinal vascular abnormalities, 87 were arterial tortuosity, one was venous tortuosity, 2 were tortuosity of both artery and vein, 2 were artery-vein crossing, 20 were copper-wire artery, one was inosculation of the artery, one was vascularization of the vein and one was persistent hyaloid artery.