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inoculum

/ɪˈnɑːkjələm/ US

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Learned borrowing from Latin inoculum.

noun inoculums · inocula

countable, uncountable The active material used in an inoculation; an inoculant (i.e., a material or a dose thereof). Observers noted that Chinese variolators in Vietnam exhibited one or two slight variations in their practice, however, one constant factor is that they all introduced inoculum into the nasal passages.
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@misc{inoculum_2026,
  title = {inoculum},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/inoculum},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}