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The arts, customs, lifestyles, background, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.

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The beliefs, values, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.

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The conventional conducts and ideologies of a community; the system comprising of the accepted norms and values of a society.

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Any knowledge passed from one generation to the next, not necessarily with respect to human beings.

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Cultivation.

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The process of growing a bacterial or other biological entity in an artificial medium.

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The growth thus produced.

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I'm headed to the lab to make sure my cell culture hasn't died.

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A group of bacteria.

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The details on a map that do not represent natural features of the area delineated, such as names and the symbols for towns, roads, meridians, and parallels.

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A recurring assemblage of artifacts from a specific time and place that may constitute the material culture remains of a particular past human society.

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To maintain in an environment suitable for growth (especially of bacteria) (compare cultivate)

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To increase the artistic or scientific interest (in something) (compare cultivate)

Examples of cultures in a Sentence

Cultures of the typhoid organism planted at a depth of 18 in.

The application of pure cultures of bacteria for improving the fertility of the land is still in an experimental stage.

The various tissues affected are examined microscopically and cultures made from them; in this way the structural changes and the relation of bacteria to them can be determined.

Long before history begins, however, the cultures of Eridu and Nippur had coalesced.

But in the admixture of the two cultures the influence of Eridu was predominant.

But by a process of successive and continued artificial cultures under different conditions, the virus of the organism is found to become attenuated; and when this weakened virus is administered, the animal is rendered immune against further attacks.

Multicultural education-A social or educational theory that encourages interest in many cultures within a society rather than in only a mainstream culture.

A Japanese researcher, Michiaki Takahashi, attenuated the virus by growing it in various animal and human cell cultures.

Weakened viruses for vaccines are grown in cell cultures.

Multicultural education describes a system of instruction that attempts to foster cultural pluralism and acknowledges the differences between races and cultures.

It addresses the educational needs of a society that contains more than one set of traditions, that is a mixture of many cultures.

Some use what has been called the multicultural festival approach, in which students are invited to celebrate ethnic diversity by being exposed to foods, holidays, and festivals of other cultures.

Other teachers apply a transformative approach, weaving different perspectives on cultures throughout the curriculum.

Included here might be desegregation programs, programs designed to increase contact among different races and cultures.

Some feel that the idea of multicultural education tends to divide cultures instead of building tolerance between them.

Multicultural education came about in part because parents expressed a need for the unique cultures of their children to be acknowledged and honored in school.

Specifically, live cultures of Lactobacillus acidophilus are said to be effective in soothing the digestive tract and returning the intestinal flora to normal.

Chlamydial cell cultures take three to seven days to grow.

The type of object most frequently swallowed varies somewhat across different historical periods and cultures.

Although inactivated-rabies vaccines from diploid cell cultures are safe and effective, they are expensive.

Human diploid cell vaccine (HDCV)-A rabies vaccine in which the virus is grown in cultures of human cells, concentrated, and inactivated for IM or ID injection.

Purified chicken embryo cell vaccine (PCEC)-A rabies vaccine in which the virus is grown in cultures of chicken embryo cells, inactivated, and purified for IM injection.

Rabies virus adsorbed (RVA)-A rabies vaccine in which the virus is grown in cultures of lung cells from rhesus monkeys, inactivated, and adsorbed to aluminum phosphate.

Herpes should be considered in any acutely ill newborn, especially if bacterial cultures are negative and the baby is not improving after two to three days.

Testing for neonatal herpes infections may include special smears and/or viral cultures, blood antibody levels, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of spinal fluid.

Cultures are usually obtained from skin vesicles, eyes, mouth, rectum, urine, stool, and blood.

The diagnosis is usually based on a combination of the patient's symptoms and the results of blood counts, cultures, or antigen detection tests.

The bacterium can be grown on chocolate agar or identified by blood cultures or Gram stain of body fluids.

Doctors may administer tests, such as throat cultures, to identify secondary infections.

Some cultures believe that stuttering is caused by emotional problems, tickling an infant too much, or because a mother ate improperly during breastfeeding.

Individuals with diphtheria must be isolated for one to seven days or until two successive cultures show that the individuals are no longer contagious.

Tuberculosis is nearly always diagnosed by tuberculin skin tests, although one can also be diagnosed by chest x rays and analysis of sputum (matter from the respiratory tract) smears and cultures.

Because some strains of the disease are unusually drug-resistant, cultures are grown from the patient's bacteria and tested with a variety of drugs to determine the most effective treatment.

Results showed that a large proportion of participants in all cultures reported experiencing shyness to a considerable degree-from 31 percent in Israel to 57 percent in Japan and 55 percent in Taiwan.

She loved elaborate costuming, and often improvised creative movement derived from the cultures of Egypt and India to lead the audience into her mystical mind.

Since the language of motion is different for many cultures and people, often the beginning of a dance routine needs to be the establishment of a movement vocabulary.

Traditional African dance tells the story of ancient cultures rich in history.

Since traditional African dance has the goal of telling a story, many cultures use simple props to further reiterate a message.

Philippine ethnic dance has a wide and varied range of movements and costumes coming from many cultures and time periods.

Tribal belly dance borrows moves from Africa as well as other cultures, however the African style of theatrical emotion while dancing is very prominent in Lacey's style.

Native American traditional dances remain an important part of many tribes' cultures, both in a traditional and ceremonial sense.

While Carnival style in Europe is somewhat singularly influenced, the Carnaval in Rio imports influences from many outside cultures, such as the African influence seen in the Samba dance.

Indigenous Dance - Like all human cultures, the Philipinos danced their own dances long before they ever came into contact with other nationalities.

From the basic box step to more elaborate combinations, Rumba dance finds its roots in various cultures and backgrounds.

Rumba comes from two distinct cultures - the Spanish and the African.

The history of Latin American dance is a rich melange of cultures and traditions.

All three came from the melting pot of South American cultures, mixing the indigenous rhythms and the movements from other continents into an entirely new choreography.

Like all cultures, there were indigenous dances in the native cultures of the Mayans and Aztecs.

Many indigenous cultures have rain dances as part of their folk dancing, but the Indian Rain Dance in North America is one of the most well-known versions.

Thanks to the crossover between the two cultures, many Americans know the names of Mexican dances.

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