Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not contaminated by or associated with any other living organisms. Usually used in reference to pure cultures of microorganisms that are completely free of the presence of other organisms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective raised under sterile conditions; -- of experimental animals.
- adjective pure or completely free of the presence of other organisms; -- used of cultures of microorganisms.
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- adjective biology Containing only a single
species ofmicroorganism . For example, an "axenic culture" means that a pure sample of the organism in question has been grown. - adjective biology
Isolated fromorganisms of any otherspecies
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- adjective (of experimental animals) raised under sterile conditions
- adjective (used of cultures of microorganisms) completely free from other organisms
Etymologies
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Examples
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Researchers can generate bacteria-free axenic mice.
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Naturally, once China showed a willingness to abandon its axenic attitude towards foreign devils and all things foreign-devilish, the
William of Germany Stanley Shaw
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Naturally, once China showed a willingness to abandon its axenic attitude towards foreign devils and all things foreign-devilish, the European Powers turned their eyes and energies towards her, and a strenuous commercial and diplomatic race after prospective concessions for railways, mines, and undertakings of all kinds began.
William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913
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Epimastigote forms of T. cruzi were grown in liver-infusion tryptose axenic medium at 27°C.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mariana M. Hecht et al. 2010
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On the day 14, trophozoites were eliminated from the co-culture while about 5x10 (4) cells/ml remained in the axenic T. pyriformis culture.
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Epimastigote forms of T. cruzi were grown in liver-infusion tryptose axenic medium at 27°C.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mariana M. Hecht et al. 2010
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Analyzing this data set, we found that among the list of 443 genes reported by Sillo et al. [23] to be responsive to a switch from axenic growth of
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L. gibba bioassay procedures (like test vessel material, sterilisation and axenic culturing procedures) influence the sensitivity of the bioassay
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Actinomycin-D puromycin-HCl axenic cultures nematode, Neoaplectana glaseri
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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