Reincubate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To incubate again.

    "Culture plates were reincubated for a further 24 h if there was no growth after overnight incubation or predominant morphotype seen in Gram smear had not yet been isolated."

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"Culture plates were reincubated for a further 24 h if there was no growth after overnight incubation or predominant morphotype seen in Gram smear had not yet been isolated."

Etymology

From re- + incubate.

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