inoculum
English Thesaurus
1. a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease (noun.substance)
| hypernym | : | substance, |
| definition | : | a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties (noun.tops) |
| domain category | : | virus, |
| definition | : | (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein (noun.animal) |
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