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  • adjective Not inoculated

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un- +‎ inoculated

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Examples

  • In nurseries and in the field the presence of nodules on uninoculated pongam seedlings is common.

    Chapter 31 1990

  • Then he and Jay disappeared, and returned with plates, one for each guest, and on each plate were two spoonfuls of beans, one of the inoculated and the other of the uninoculated beans.

    The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw

  • Complement is obtained (unmixed with antibody) by collecting fresh blood serum from any healthy normal (that is uninoculated) animal.

    The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.

  • Albert, who rather scorned inoculation of soil, willingly agreed to make the experiment, stipulating that he have the uninoculated plot.

    The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw

  • _Cynodon dactylon_, uninoculated, had always shunned coldness, though it survived some degrees of frost.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

  • Eventually they withered and dwindled and were in the end no different from the uninoculated grass.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

  • When paraded next day 370 uninoculated were discovered and given the treatment; the few who refused were sent to the base depot and replaced by others.

    On the Fringe of the Great Fight 1921

  • It is impossible, however, to prevent our soldiers billeted in France from occasionally contracting communicable diseases from the French civilian population, and it is obvious that as there were from 3 to 5 per cent. of the soldiers uninoculated against typhoid fever, we would get some cases of typhoid fever.

    On the Fringe of the Great Fight 1921

  • As early as 1721 the Rev. Cotton Mather, of Boston (U.S. A.), introduced inoculation to the notice of the American physicians, and in 1722 Dr. Boylston, of Brooklyn, inoculated 247 persons, of whom about 2 per cent. died of the acquired smallpox as compared with 14 per cent. of deaths amongst 6,000 uninoculated persons who caught the natural smallpox.

    The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915

  • The disadvantage of inoculation was that the person inoculated was affected with a mild form of small-pox, which however, was contagious, and led to a virulent form in uninoculated persons.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

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