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    INOCULUM

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

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

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    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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