Blood Agar (Noun)
Meaning
A culture medium containing whole blood as the nutrient.
Classification
Nouns denoting substances.
Examples
- The microbiologist carefully prepared the blood agar plates to cultivate the bacteria from the patient's sample.
- Blood agar is a type of enriched medium used to support the growth of fastidious microorganisms.
- The lab technician streaked the bacterial culture onto the blood agar plate and incubated it at 37°C.
- Blood agar plates are commonly used in clinical microbiology laboratories to isolate and identify pathogens.
- The presence of hemolysis on the blood agar plate indicated that the bacteria were capable of breaking down red blood cells.