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coculture

coculture

English

Noun

coculture (plural cocultures)

  1. (biology) A cell culture containing two different cell types
    The cocultures of HeLa cells and lymphocytes were incubated for 24 hours.

Verb

coculture (third-person singular simple present cocultures, present participle coculturing, simple past and past participle cocultured)

  1. (biology) To culture together, usually with another type of cell
    cells cocultured with macrophages