Category: I

Apparatus for the coagulation of slopes of serum, and egg, media by gentle heat (75 – 85°) provided by a thermostatically-controlled jacket of hot water or electrical elements. The necessary slant of the (originally) fluid medium is provided by angled racks.  

Bacteriological nutrient broth, prepared by extracting soluble protein and other substances from cooked meat (usually beef), coagulated proteins being removed by filtration. After the addition of peptone and salt the reaction is adjusted and the product sterilized. Alternatively (Wright’s method) peptone and salt are added to minced beef and water prior to cooking, to achieve…

Method of fixing fragile organisms (such as the PPLO group) by touching the top of an excised colony in agar on to a coverslip, then: (a) allowing a liquid fixative such as Bouin’s to percolate through agar and colony on to the coverslip; or (b) removing agar and colony and flaming the coverslip gently. Such…

Specific antibody elaborated in response to artificial or natural stimuli such as vaccination or infection. Discussed more fully in Immunity. An antibody produced by immunization or as a result of transfusion of incompatible blood.  

Private gain from corporate activities. A nonprofit corporation cannot keep its tax exempt status if there is “inurement” to individuals or proprietary (for-profit) interests. One common area in which inurement issues are raised today is physician recruitment. Hospitals often provide incentives to attract physicians in needed specialties. If the hospital contracts to pay the physician…

A person within an organization who creates a new venture or “product” for the organization, as contrasted with an “entrepreneur,” a person who organizes a new venture and assumes the risk.  

A nonprofit health care research body, a “think tank,” located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  

A worldwide network of computer networks that can share information because a common set of language protocols (“TCP/IP”) are used by all. Having origins similar to America’s interstate highway system, the Internet was created in the interests of national defense by the US government. Begun by Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn in the early 1970’s…

Discussion in which several generations consider issues and problems from their respective points of view. When the young people in a community meet with senior citizens to discuss problems, the dialog is intergenerational.  

Requiring or allowing a response from the user. In computer and telecommunications usage, interactive refers to a program that assumes the user or viewer will exercise some degree of choice to determine how the program will proceed. Almost all computer programs are interactive in that they present some kind of menu to the user, and…