dictionary help| dilution | medical dictionary |
1. The act of being diluted.
2. A diluted solution or mixture.
3. In microbiologic techniques, a method for counting the number of viable cells in a suspension; a sample is diluted to the point where an aliquot, when plated, yields a countable number of separate colonies.
(05 Mar 2000)
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