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INOCULUM

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Irregular inflected form: inocula  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular diseaseplay

Synonyms:

inoculant; inoculum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("inoculum" is a kind of...):

substance (a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties)

Domain category:

virus ((virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein)

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