单词 | inoculable |
释义 | inoculableadj. 1. Of a disease or (in later use) infective agent: that is or can be transmitted by accidental, experimental, or natural introduction into an organism (cf. inoculation n. 2c). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adjective] > inoculated > of disease: inoculable inoculable1832 1832 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 38 76 The infection of hospital gangrene is a transportable and inoculable contagion, as applied to other ulcers. 1857 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 June 482/1 If the disease [sc. condylomata] were inoculable at all, the same result would be obtained whether the matter were inserted by a lancet or by any other means. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. viii. 144 Plague is a specific, inoculable and otherwise communicable disease. 1913 W. T. Councilman Dis. & its Causes vi. 131 The disease produced by inoculation of the filtrate was itself inoculable and could be transmitted from animal to animal. 1939 F. C. Bawden Plant Viruses & Virus Dis. v. 68 It is possible then that..in the insect it [sc. maize streak virus] changes to a form readily inoculable to plants. 2003 E. Schneider tr. M. Schwartz How Cows turned Mad vi. 39 Scrapie is infectious and inoculable. 2. Capable of causing infection or disease when introduced by inoculation. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [adjective] > inoculated > of matter: inoculable inoculable1834 1834 London Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 4 369/2 The buboes have never been virulent,..the discharges, upon which they seem to depend, not being inoculable by the aid of the lancet. 1855 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 16 ii. 402 The injured or battered ones [sc. hoofs of sheep]..are rarely put to the ground, and hence are little liable to come in contact with the inoculable matter. 1913 W. T. Councilman Dis. & its Causes vi. 131 It was also found that when the virus was filtered several times it ceased to be inoculable. 2006 Jrnl. Hist. Med. & Allied Sci. 61 50 From this pool [of infected mouse brains], he produced an infective, inoculablemedium by means of a standard procedure. 3. Capable of being infected by inoculation; susceptible to a disease transmitted by inoculation. ΚΠ 1851 Half-yearly Abstr. Med. Sci. 14 275 He believed that generally, if not always, the material which, when carried from one subject to another, could produce puerperal or surgical fever in a newly inoculable subject, was an inflammatory secretion. 1911 Proc. Royal Soc. 1910–11 B. 83 180 Oxen and goats were inoculable, but the only sheep experimented on failed to become infected. 1928 Jrnl. Agric. Res. 37 668 It became necessary to find a method whereby inoculable leaves could be procured throughout the year. 2008 Plant Physiol. 148 1538/2 The larger tobacco leaves offer a readily inoculable target tissue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1832 |
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