inoculare

  • 81escusson — Escusson, m. Est le diminutif de ce mot Escu, tout ainsi que Enfançon de cet autre Enfant. Et signifie un Escu reduit en petite forme, car l escu estoit une piece du harnois defensif d un chevalier, et estoit haut et large, ayant les armoiries et …

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  • 82inocular — (Del lat. inoculāre). 1. tr. Med. Introducir en un organismo una sustancia que contiene los gérmenes de una enfermedad. 2. Pervertir, contaminar a alguien con el mal ejemplo o la falsa doctrina. U. t. c. prnl.) 3. inculcar (ǁ infundir) …

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  • 83inoculable — inoculate ► VERB 1) another term for VACCINATE(Cf. ↑vaccination). 2) introduce (cells or organisms) into a culture medium. DERIVATIVES inoculable adjective inoculation noun inoculator noun. ORIGIN …

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  • 84inoculate — ► VERB 1) another term for VACCINATE(Cf. ↑vaccination). 2) introduce (cells or organisms) into a culture medium. DERIVATIVES inoculable adjective inoculation noun inoculator noun. ORIGIN …

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  • 85inoculation — inoculate ► VERB 1) another term for VACCINATE(Cf. ↑vaccination). 2) introduce (cells or organisms) into a culture medium. DERIVATIVES inoculable adjective inoculation noun inoculator noun. ORIGIN …

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  • 86inoculator — inoculate ► VERB 1) another term for VACCINATE(Cf. ↑vaccination). 2) introduce (cells or organisms) into a culture medium. DERIVATIVES inoculable adjective inoculation noun inoculator noun. ORIGIN …

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  • 87inoculate — [15] Far fetched as the connection may seem, inoculate actually comes ultimately from Latin oculus ‘eye’ (source of English ocular [16] and oculist [17]). By metaphorical extension oculus was applied to the ‘bud’ of a plant (much like the eye of… …

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  • 88inoculate — [i näk′yə lāt΄] vt. inoculated, inoculating [ME enoculaten < L inoculatus, pp. of inoculare, to engraft a bud in another plant < in , in + oculus, a bud, EYE] 1. a) to inject a serum, vaccine, etc. into (a living organism), esp. in order to …

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  • 89inoculate — v.tr. 1 a treat (a person or animal) with a small quantity of the agent of a disease, in the form of vaccine or serum, usu. by injection, to promote immunity against the disease. b implant (a disease) by means of vaccine. 2 instil (a person) with …

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  • 90in|oc|u|late — «ih NOK yuh layt», verb, lat|ed, lat|ing. –v.t. 1. to give (to a person or animal) a preparation made from killed or weakened germs or viruses that causes a mild form of the disease. Thereafter the individual will not get that disease or will… …

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