0 past simple and past participle of inoculate
1 to give a weak form of a disease to a person or animal, usually by injection, as a protection against that disease:
For each of the three treatments (undiluted, 10x2 and 10x3) two rabbits were inoculated by intramuscular inoculation.
Incubation vessels inside the chamber were filled with sterile sand, inoculated with crushed sandstone-based biofilms and allowed to incubate for 5.5 months.
Three control cultures, consisting of sand-filled vessels that were not inoculated, were included in the incubation chamber.
Animals were inoculated with viable metacercariae in water.
Within any 1 trial, 4 voles of each treatment were inoculated by random turn from the same infected donor vole.
The control mice were inoculated per os with 500 larvae/animal using a 2 ml syringe connected to a gavage needle.
To examine microbial responses, we inoculated these solutions and wet carbonaceous chondrite meteorites with microorganisms.
All birds were reared in a coccidia-free environment until inoculated or otherwise used.
