nutrosen.
/ˈnjuːtrəʊz/, /ˈnjuːtrəʊs/, U.S. /ˈn(j)utroʊs/, /ˈn(j)utroʊz/ Medicine and Biology.
A sodium salt of casein used as a source of protein in medicine and bacteriology. Frequently attributive in nutrose agar.
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1896 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. 3 63/1 Nutrose. A food preparation introduced under this name consists of a neutral compound of casein with alkali.
1907 in C. von Noorden et al. Metabolism & Pract. Med. II. ii. 73 I see many patients who..have added large quantities of nutrose, plasmon, tropon, sanatogen, roborat, etc., to their ordinary daily food, with the intention of strengthening themselves.
1934 Ecology 15 101 The counts obtained by the use of nutrose agar averaged 39 per cent higher than when lake water agar was used, and, therefore, nutrose agar was adopted for the work.
1957 Amer. Midland Naturalist 58 418 For the fungi, a Peptose Glucose Acid Agar was utilized and for bacteria and actinomycetes, Nutrose Agar was used as a medium.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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