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Petri dish

[pe´tre]

a round, shallow, flat-bottomed transparent glass or plastic dish with vertical sides and a similar but slightly larger dish that forms a cover; used for the culture of microorganisms on solid media and for tissue cell cultures.

Pe·tri dish

(pē'trē),

a small, shallow, circular dish made of thin glass or clear plastic with a loosely fitting, overlapping cover used especially in microbiology for the cultivation of microorganisms on solid media; it is frequently referred to as a plate.

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petri dish

(pē′trē)

A shallow circular dish with a loose-fitting cover, used to culture bacteria or other microorganisms.

Petri dish

A shallow circular dish of glass or plastic with an identically shaped, loose-fitting cover, used to grow micro-organisms on a layer of culture medium. The design of the dish was suggested by an assistant of Louis Pasteur. (Richard Julius Petri, 1852–1921, German bacteriologist).

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Petri dish

see PLATE.

Petri dish

) a flat dish used to culture microorganisms.to spread cells over the surface of a medium in a culture plate.

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Petri,

Julius, German bacteriologist, 1852-1921.

Petri dish - a small shallow plate used especially in microbiology for the cultivation of microorganisms on solid media. Synonym(s): Petri plate

Petri plate - Synonym(s): Petri dish

Petri test - for proteins.

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Within both natural tunnels and passages excavated within planar arenas, termite movements are limited to specific paths, while in the open space of a Petri dish movement in any direction is unhindered.

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In their method, the researchers shine a laser beam through a petri dish dotted with bacterial colonies, project an image of one colony at a time on a screen, and record that image with a digital camera.