coculture

English

Alternative forms

  • co-culture

Etymology

From co- +‎ culture.

Noun

coculture (plural cocultures)

  1. (biology) A cell culture containing two (or sometimes more) different types of cells.
    The cocultures of HeLa cells and lymphocytes were incubated for 24 hours.

Verb

coculture (third-person singular simple present cocultures, present participle coculturing, simple past and past participle cocultured)

  1. (biology) To culture together, usually with another type of cell
    cells cocultured with macrophages

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.