| ADC | adult day care [facility]; affective disorders clinic; Aid to [Families with] Dependent Children; AI... |
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| A5D5W | alcohol 5%, dextrose 5%, in water |
| CPD | calcium pyrophosphate deposition; cephalopelvic disproportion; cerebelloparenchymal disorder; childh... |
| CPDA | citrate-phosphate-dextrose-adenine |
| D/DW | dextrose in distilled water |
| MacConkey agar | Medium containing peptone, lactose, bile salts, neutral red, and crystal violet used to identify Gram-negative bacilli and characterise them according to their status as lactose fermenters. Fermenters appear as red colonies while nonfermenters are colourless. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| rice-Tween agar | A useful medium for the development of the differential chlamydospores in Candida albicans and for preparation of slide cultures for other forms of sporulation in other fungal species. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chocolate agar | Blood agar heated until the blood becomes brown or chocolate in colour, used especially to isolate Haemophilus influenza or Neisseria species. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cholera agar | An alkaline agar medium for cultivating Vibrio cholerae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Guarnieri's gelatin agar | A type of agar, similar to Stoddart's gelatin agar, used for the cultivation of Streptococcus pneumoniae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pfeiffer's blood agar | Solid agar with a few drops of human blood smeared on the surface. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mueller-Hinton agar | Medium containing beef infusion, peptone, and starch used primarily for the disk-agar diffusion method for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Conradi-Drigalski agar | A selective, nutrient medium for isolation of Salmonella typhi and other intestinal pathogens from faecal specimens; it contains the dye crystal violet, which generally inhibits growth of Gram-positive, but not Gram-negative, bacteria. Synonym: Drigalski-Conradi agar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cornmeal agar | A culture medium that is low in nutrients, used extensively in the study of yeastlike and filamentous fungi; it suppresses vegetative growth while stimulating sporulation of many species, and is widely used for producing the distinctive and rapidly diagnostic chlamydospores of Candida albicans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Czapek's solution agar | A culture medium used for the cultivation of fungus species and for identification of Aspergillus and Penicillium species. Synonym: Czapek-Dox medium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| serum agar | An enriched medium for cultivation of fastidious organisms; prepared by adding sterile serum to melted agar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| soft agar | <cell culture> Semi solid agar used to gelate medium for culture of animal cells. Placed in such a medium, over a denser agar layer, the cells are denied access to a solid substratum on which to spread, so that only anchorage independent (usually transformed) cells are able to grow. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Novy and MacNeal's blood agar | A nutrient agar containing two volumes of defibrinated rabbit's blood; suitable for the cultivation of a number of trypanosomes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nutrient agar | A simple solid medium containing beef extract, peptone, agar, and water; used for growing many common heterotrophic bacteria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Drigalski-Conradi agar | A selective, nutrient medium for isolation of Salmonella typhi and other intestinal pathogens from faecal specimens; it contains the dye crystal violet, which generally inhibits growth of Gram-positive, but not Gram-negative, bacteria. Synonym: Drigalski-Conradi agar. (05 Mar 2000) |