nonacid-proof en · ADJ
Etymology
From non- + acid-proof.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not acid-proof.
As described by him the organism so cultivated was highly pleomorphic, with branched, acid-proof and nonacid-proof stages.
1916, Edwin Oakes Jordan, A Text-book of General Bacteriology, page 400:The culture could be rendered nonacid-proof by continual growth under conditions unfavorable to the synthesis of fats.
1914, T.F. Hunt, “California Station, Bulletin 241”, in Experiment Station Record: U.S. Department of Agriculture, volume 30, page 782:At 37 °C established nonacid-proof grainy long sticks (10–15 microns), nonacid-proof and acid-proof single grains. Mycobacteriа of original culture – nonacid-proof short sticks and grains and only single nonacid-proof long sticks.
2016, A. Tkachenko, M. Bilan, H. Glebenyuk, Y. Sokol, L. Gordiyenko, “Elucidation of the biological activity and the" purity" of the culture dissociative forms of m. Bovis”, in News of Dnipropetrovsk State Agrarian and Economic University: Veterinary Sciences, number 2: