Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In bacteriology, the amount of liquid which can be held within the loop of platinum wire used for transferring cultures.
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Examples
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The estimation of the _m.l. d. _ of a toxin is carried out on lines similar to those laid down for living bacteria (_vide_ page 316) merely substituting 1 c.c. of toxin as the unit in place of the unit "loopful" of living culture.
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Each cubic centimetre of the emulsion will now contain one-tenth of the organisms contained in the original loopful (written shortly 0.1 loop).
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Make a series of hanging-drop preparations from the agar culture, using a loopful of disinfectant solution of the different percentages to prepare the emulsion on each cover-slip.
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Remove one loopful of the bacterial growth from the surface of the medium in the culture tube, observing the usual precautions against contamination, and emulsify it evenly with the bouillon in the first capsule.
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When growth is visible enumerate the number of organisms present in each, average up and calculate the number of bacteria present in one loopful of the inoculum.
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Under aseptic precautions, at the post-mortem, transfer a loopful of heart blood to an Erlenmeyer flask containing 50 c.c. sterile nutrient broth.
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One standardized platinum loopful of the twenty-four hour yeast growth is then used to inoculate the contents of the tube, the tube stoppered with cotton and incubated for from twenty-four to seventy-two hours at a temperature of 31°C.
The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy
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Add one loopful of the inoculum to tube No. 1, treating the liquefied medium as bouillon.
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Place a loopful of fresh desiccating fluid on a 3 × 1 glass slide; add a similar loopful of the marrow emulsion, and spread very gently over the surface of the slip.
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At regular intervals, say every thirty minutes, remove a loopful of the cultivation and prepare a cover-slip film preparation.
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