Medical Definition of Acceleration phase

1. A period of increasing growth before the log phase in a culture of microbes. After the culture is started on a medium, at first there is no growth (the lag phase) and then the microbes start to gradually grow (acceleration phase) until they reach a constant maximum rate of growth (log phase). (15 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Acceleration Phase

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accelerated conduction
accelerated hypertension
accelerated idioventricular rhythm
accelerated phase of leukaemia
accelerated reaction
accelerated rejection
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acceleration phase (current term)
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accelerator fibres
accelerator globulin
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