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cultured - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Educated, polished, and refined; cultivated.
adjective Produced under artificial and controlled conditions.
from The Century Dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Under culture; cultivated.
adjective Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective Learned in the ways of civilized society ; civilized ; refined .
adjective Artificially developed .
verb Simple past tense and past participle of culture .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective marked by refinement in taste and manners
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Capecchi and Smithies had demonstrated that genes could be targeted by homologous recombination in cultured cells, and Evans had contributed the necessary vehicle to the mouse germ line – the ES-cells.
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Press Release 2007
Smithies first used homologous recombination to correct a mutant HPRT gene in cultured ES cells [35].
The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - Advanced Information 2007
Duplexes of 21-nucleotide RNAs mediate RNA interference in cultured mammalian cells.
Advanced Information: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006
It is now exploited not only in cultured cells but also in transgenic organisms.
Advanced Information: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006
ACOSTA: The word cultured will be coming back to us, John.
CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2008 2008
Japanese researchers have built a miniature pump that's driven by living cells cultured from a rat's heart muscles.
Boing Boing: November 26, 2006 - December 2, 2006 Archives 2006
These ubiquitous probes have been extremely useful as reporters for gene expression studies in cultured cells and tissues, as well as living animals.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
Jerking about in his chair, Kirk endeavored to assume what he hoped was an expression of cultured confidence the Klingons might not be able to see him, but the monitoring officers certainly could.
The Kobayashi Maru Julia Ecklar 2000
He also carried out one of his very few experiments using tissue culture, demonstrating that poliovirus would multiply in cultured human foetal intestinal and buccal tissues.
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute 1997
Wolfrom C, Chau NP, Maigné J, Lambert JC, Ducot B, et al. (2000) Evidence for deterministic chaos in aperiodic oscillations of proliferative activity in long-term cultured Fao hepatoma cells.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michel Laurent et al. 2010
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