(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.
Safeguard
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, defends or protects; defense; protection.
(n.) A convoy or guard to protect a traveler or property.
(n.) A pass; a passport; a safe-conduct.
(v. t.) To guard; to protect.
Example Sentences:
(1) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
(2) It’s an additional income but it’s also a financial safeguard.” Rosby Mthinda, who has worked with Dohse for more than a decade and now trains collectors in her role as field assistant, says the baobab trade is paying dividends for people and the environment.
(3) The public must have confidence that the government is doing all it can to safeguard Britain's threatened bees.
(4) The people who are supposed to safeguard the editorial independence of the BBC – to safeguard it from, among other things, government interference – are going to be appointed by the same government that they are supposed to be protecting the BBC from.
(5) "We expect LSCBs [local safeguarding children boards], LAs [local authorities] police forces and other agencies to do all they can to identify victims and abusers and we are looking at how we can improve data-sharing."
(6) In the last 19 years there have been no child protection rulings that have found us falling short of safeguarding the people in our care,” she said in a statement on the charity’s website.
(7) If society imposes a different standard of optimal care, I suggest that health care professionals will respond in one of three ways: oppose social intervention, adopt the social optimum, or take an intermediate position by accepting the social specification of optimal care but safeguarding the individual practitioner's role as an advocate for each patient and the profession's role as an advocate its view of the public good.
(8) To safeguard these results of discrimination tests, 50 randomized foreigners without any knowledge of German were examined under exact conditions in the same way as Germans.
(9) "We are already in negotiations with the government on how to develop working patterns which meet patient demand and deliver greater consultant presence at weekends, while safeguarding the need for a healthy work-life balance."
(10) The proposal has created additional concerns because of the weak safeguards around access to this sort of personal information already in place.
(11) The removal of financial penalties for trusts that overwork their doctors would see us lose our only safeguard against unsafe rotas.
(12) The only plausible response is an appeal regarding the likely side effects and exploitation of the system, but that is something that could be tested with controlled pilot studies, and safeguards could be put in place.
(13) On the back of the disclosures, President Obama ordered a White House review into data surveillance , a number of congressional reform bills have been introduced, and protections have begun to be put in place to safeguard privacy for foreign leaders and to increase scrutiny over the NSA’s mass data collection.
(14) To safeguard against the risk of accidental infection with etiological agents such as the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) while manipulating large numbers of blood samples in preparation for DNA probing, we determined the residual infectivity of HIV-1 after exposure to HSL components.
(15) For guidance in decisions on how to safeguard humans from carcinogens, it is necessary to use data on carcinogenesis in animals.
(16) Tory U-turn on fracking regulations will leave safeguards totally inadequate | Lisa Nandy and Kerry McCarthy Read more “Ministers had previously conceded there should be the tougher safeguards that Labour has been calling for to protect drinking water sources and sensitive parts of our countryside like national parks,” said the Labour MP.
(17) Safeguards for the subject's welfare and privacy must be considered during the planning of the study, recruitment of participants, conducting the interviews or examinations, maintaining the records, and analyzing and disseminating the information.
(18) He adds: "Based on my background in human rights law, I judged that the final proposal contained sufficient safeguards.
(19) It would also be a propaganda victory for Moscow, which launched a campaign to safeguard Assad’s rule last October.
(20) The supreme court judges had ruled that there was not "the remotest chance that the European court would hold that, because of other protections that Scots law provides for accused persons, the Scottish system could omit the safeguard of allowing legal advice prior to interviewing".