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Definition of Nutrient agar

1. Noun. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.

Medical Definition of Nutrient agar

1. A simple solid medium containing beef extract, peptone, agar, and water; used for growing many common heterotrophic bacteria. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nutrient Agar

Literary usage of Nutrient agar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"Non- nutrient agar and ю per cent, sugar-beet agar were used for the drops ... four combinations: the central drop was of nutrient agar and two small drops ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Plain nutrient agar (0.9 per cent, acid to phenolphthalein). 4. Plain nutrient agar to which } to J volume of ascitic serum has been added. 5. ..."

3. Pathogenic Microörganisms: A Practical Manual for Students, Physicians, and by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams, Charles Krumwiede (1917)
"For this reason nutrient agar in Petri dishes is used to obtain diphtheria bacilli in pure culture. Certain strains of the diphtheria bacillus after having ..."

4. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique: A Laboratory Guide for the by John William Henry Eyre (1902)
"Tube, and sterilise as for nutrient agar. Lactose Litmus Agar (Wurtz) • 1. ... Cool to 60° C. and clarify with egg as for nutrient agar. 5. ..."

5. Manual of Bacteriology by Edgar March Crookshank (1890)
"(A) PREPARATION OF NUTRIENT GELATINE AND nutrient agar-AGAR. Nutrient Gelatine is prepared as follows :— Take half a kilogramme of beef (one pound), ..."

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