Culture

[Sarah]

-A term invoked by people who feel pride in accomplishments of others.

-A justification for all kinds of human rights violation.

-An outcome of evolutionary beneficial group thinking, and thus a racist generalisation.

-Also used in conjunction with 'history' for more pride and group thinking.

[Sarah]

The totality of communication practices and systems of meaning; a whole way of life of a people; the social production and reproduction of sense, meaning and consciousness. Culture does not express the way of life of a people, it actively shapes up that way of life.

[Sarah]

a controlled growth of bacteria

[Sarah]

Socially transmitted patterns of action and expression. [Material culture] refers to physical objects, such as dwellings, clothing, tools, and crafts. Culture also includes arts, beliefs, knowledge, and technology.

[Sarah]

What happens when people strive to live together.

[Greta]

[Some bullshit] that [corporations] like to throw around to pretend not to be either evil or incompetent. Either that or they are just blindly copying other corporations lead in [newspeak].

[Julene]

a [way] of [living]

[Marquetta]

Culture is microbial growth on or in a nutritional solid or liquid medium; increased numbers of organisms simplify identification. Culture also facilitates testing of antimicrobial susceptibility.

Communication with the laboratory is essential. Although most specimens are placed on general purpose media (eg, blood or chocolate agar), some pathogens require inclusion of specific nutrients and inhibitors (see table Selective Media for Isolation of Common Bacteria) or other special conditions for incubation (eg, a specific temperature, oxygen or carbon dioxide concentration, or duration). If one of these more fastidious pathogens is suspected or if the patient has been taking antimicrobials, the laboratory should be advised. The specimen’s source is reported so that the laboratory can differentiate pathogens from site-specific normal flora.