inocular

From in- +‎ ocular.

inocular (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Inserted in the corner of the eye, like the antenna of certain insects.
2. Pertaining to inoculation.
   • 1910, Experiment Station Record - Volume 22, page 377:

     A tumor which originated in a Japanese waltzing mouse was transplanted for many generations in mice of the same variety, but invariably failed to grow when inoculated into common mice. […] Susceptibility to an inocular tumor is neither, therefore, inherited in accordance with Mendel's law, nor are the results obtained from cross-breeding explained by any other known principle of inheritance.

   • 1982, Ramiro Ramírez Necoechea, IPVS 82: Proceedings, page 58:

     The infected group all showed thickening of the terminal ileum and enlargement of the mesenteric lymph nodes at post-mortem examination and all had serum antibody to the inocular strain at levels of 1:320 - 1:640 compared with 1:20 and 1:40 pre-inoculation.

   • 2018, Jean Paul Butzler, Campylobacter Infection in Man and Animals, page 204:

     Agglutinating antibody to the inocular strain develops.

inocular

1. A dose of an inoculum.
   • 1964, Nihon Igakkai. Sōkai, Abstract of the Proceedings, page 389:

     It was found that those factors consisted of the inocular size or viable unit of tubercle bacilli to be inoculated on a medium, the kind of a medium, the preparation and preservation of a medium and culture condition influenced the test results .

   • 1970, Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Technical Report - Volumes 215-219:

     Percentage survival curves of an inocular of a laboratory culture of E. coli into seawater collected in August .

   • 1983, International Cancer Research Data Bank, ICRDB Cancergram: Oncofetal proteins - Issue 6, page 9:

     An inocular of 1x10 ( 5 ) PLC/PRF/5 cells were injected subcutaneously into the back of athymic mice.

inocular (first-person singular present inoculo, first-person singular preterite inoculí, past participle inoculat)

1. to innoculate

• inoculació

• “inocular”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from English inoculate, attested in 1722; from Latin inoculāre (“to ingraft by budding”), from in- + oculus (“eye, bud”).

• IPA^(key): /inokuˈlaɾ/ [i.no.kuˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: i‧no‧cu‧lar

inocular (first-person singular present inoculo, first-person singular preterite inoculé, past participle inoculado)

1. (transitive) to inoculate

• “inocular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024