coculture

English

Alternative forms
  • co-culture

Etymology

co- +‎ culture

Noun

coculture (plural cocultures)

  1. (biology) A cell culture containing two (or sometimes more) different types of cells.
    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

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