Medical Dictionary
chemostat
noun che·mo·stat \ˈkē-mə-ˌstat, ˈkem-ə-\
Medical Definition of CHEMOSTAT
: a device in which bacteria are kept uniformly suspended in a culture medium that is constantly renewed and maintained chemically unaltered by a continuous flow of new medium through it and which is used especially in quantitative studies of mutation rates
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