culturing

English

Verb

culturing

1. present participle and gerund of culture

Noun

culturing (plural culturings)

1. An act or an instance of growing or maintaining a culture (especially of bacteria).
   • 1975, Dan Danielsson, Lennart Juhlin, Per-Anders Mårdh, Proceedings of the Symposium on Genital Infections and Their Complications, held in Stockholom, Sweden, October 9-11, 1974‎:

     Thus a positive finding may require several control culturings after treatment to eliminate false-negative results.