blood agar

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   a culture medium containing whole blood as the nutrient

   Broaderagar

Questions about blood agar

What does blood agar mean?

blood agar means "a culture medium containing whole blood as the nutrient".

Is blood agar a common word?

blood agar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.