Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Abtötungskurve
English translation:
viability curve
Added to glossary by
Christine Lam
Nov 7, 2004 16:02
19 yrs ago
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German term
Abtötungskurve
German to English
Science
Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-)
In den Abbildungen 1 und 2 sind die in XY Nährbouillon gemessenen Abtötungskurven von BB und CC wiedergegeben.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 2 | viability curve |
Jonathan MacKerron
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| 4 +1 | killing curve |
Melanie Nassar
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| 5 | dose-response curve |
John Speese
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| 3 | death curve |
Robert Schlarb
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| 3 | extinction curves |
Anne Schulz
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| 3 | Death rate |
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Proposed translations
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Jonathan MacKerron
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German term (edited):
Abt�tungskurve
Selected
viability curve
according to Langenscheidt
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Comment: "thanks to everyone for their input"
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Melanie Nassar
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German term (edited):
Abt�tungskurve
killing curve
killing curve
A killing curve is a graph plotting the dosage of a treatment against the number of cells or individuals killed by the treatment.
http://www.ergito.com/glosscontents.jsp?letter=K
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Note added at 15 mins (2004-11-07 16:18:23 GMT)
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A killing curve is a plot of the % survival of cells cultured at increasing
concentrations of AEC
www.chembio.uoguelph.ca/educmat/chm457/4570l10.pdf
A killing curve is a graph plotting the dosage of a treatment against the number of cells or individuals killed by the treatment.
http://www.ergito.com/glosscontents.jsp?letter=K
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Note added at 15 mins (2004-11-07 16:18:23 GMT)
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A killing curve is a plot of the % survival of cells cultured at increasing
concentrations of AEC
www.chembio.uoguelph.ca/educmat/chm457/4570l10.pdf
1 hr
Robert Schlarb
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English
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, German
Works in: German to English, English to German, French to English, and 1 more.
German term (edited):
Abt�tungskurve
death curve
less bloodthirsty, also well attested, e.g.
http://www.biology.lsu.edu/webfac/rgayda/biol1011/Lecture_no...
Rate of Microbial Death
• When bacterial population are heated or treated with an antimicrobial chemicals
• cells die at a constant rate.
Microbial Death Curve
http://www.biology.lsu.edu/webfac/rgayda/biol1011/Lecture_no...
Rate of Microbial Death
• When bacterial population are heated or treated with an antimicrobial chemicals
• cells die at a constant rate.
Microbial Death Curve
3 hrs
German term (edited):
Abt�tungskurve
extinction curves
"extinction" would also describe what happens to bacteria in a toxic medium, but sounds less "bloodthirsty"
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John Speese
United States
United States
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United States
23 years in agricultural science
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German term (edited):
Abt�tungskurve
dose-response curve
If the text is about the response of these organisms when exposed to a particular substance, this is the term that we use, at least in agriculture.
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German term (edited):
Abt�tungskurve
Death rate
Depends on what the context is (i.e. the graphics we cant see), but this might fit
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