Czapek-Dox medium
noun
Cza·pek-Dox medium
¦chä(ˌ)pek¦däks-
variants or Czapek medium
: a culture medium for various fungi consisting essentially of a balanced and buffered mixture of inorganic salts, a sugar, and water and being used (1) as a solution or (2) with added agar as a solid
called also respectively 1Czapek solution, Czapek-Dox solution, 2Czapek agar
Word History
Etymology
after Friedrich Czapek †1921 Czech botanist & Arthur W. Dox †1954 American chemist