inoculate
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yəˌleɪt verb (used with object)
1.
to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
2.
to affect or treat (a person, animal, or plant) in this manner.
3.
to introduce (microorganisms) into surroundings suited to their growth, as a culture medium.
4.
to imbue (a person), as with ideas.
5.
Metallurgy. to treat (molten metal) chemically to strengthen the microstructure.
verb (used without object)
6.
to perform inoculation.
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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin inoculātus past participle of inoculāre to graft by budding, implant, equivalent to in- in-2 + -oculā- (stem of -oculāre to graft, derivative of oculus eye, bud) + -tus past participle suffix
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin inoculātus past participle of inoculāre to graft by budding, implant, equivalent to in- in-2 + -oculā- (stem of -oculāre to graft, derivative of oculus eye, bud) + -tus past participle suffix
Related forms
in·oc·u·la·tor, noun
non·in·oc·u·la·tive, adjective
re·in·oc·u·late, verb, re·in·oc·u·lat·ed, re·in·oc·u·lat·ing.
self-in·oc·u·lat·ed, adjective
Synonyms
4. indoctrinate, infuse.
4. indoctrinate, infuse.
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inoculate (ɪˈnɒkjʊˌleɪt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to introduce (the causative agent of a disease) into the body of (a person or animal), in order to induce immunity |
| 2. | (tr) to introduce (microorganisms, esp bacteria) into (a culture medium) |
| 3. | (tr) to cause to be influenced or imbued, as with ideas or opinions |
| [C15: from Latin inoculāre to implant, from | |
| inocu'lation | |
| —n | |
| in'oculative | |
| —adj | |
| in'oculator | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
inoculate
early 15c., "implant a bud into a plant," from L. inoculatus, pp. of inoculare "graft in, implant," from in- "in" + oculus "bud," originally "eye" (see eye). Meaning of "implant germs of a disease to produce immunity" first recorded (in inoculation) 1714, originally in referemce
to smallpox. After 1799, often used in sense of "to vaccine inoculate."
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Medical Dictionary
inoculate in·oc·u·late (ĭ-nŏk'yə-lāt')
v. in·oc·u·lat·ed, in·oc·u·lat·ing, in·oc·u·lates
To introduce a serum, a vaccine, or an antigenic substance into the body of a person or an animal, especially as a means to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease.
To implant microorganisms or infectious material into or on a culture medium.
To communicate a disease to a living organism by transferring its causative agent into the organism.
in·oc'u·la'tive adj.
in·oc'u·la'tor n.
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Science Dictionary
inoculation (ĭ-nŏk'yə-lā'shən) Pronunciation Key
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Example sentences
The petri dishes should be as sources of inoculum to inoculate onto other dishes in order to multiply the fungus further.
Doctors have even been known to inoculate premature infants with protective strains to ward off infection by pathogens.
These dispersing thrips inoculate both crops and summer annual weeds during a relatively brief period in spring.
Then they showed that a preparation of killed virus could inoculate monkeys against the disease.
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