Definitions for petri dish
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1. Petri dishnoun

   a shallow dish used to culture bacteria

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1. Petri dishnoun

   A shallow glass dish, with a loose-fitting cover, used to culture bacteria.

2. Etymology: Named after the German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri.

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1. petri dish

   A Petri dish is a shallow, cylindrical, lidded dish made of clear glass or plastic that biologists and other scientists use for culture of microorganisms such as bacteria, yeast, mold, algae and small mosses. The lid prevents contamination and allows the diffusion of air. These dishes, used widely in laboratories especially in microbiology studies, were named after German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri.

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1. Petri dish

   A Petri dish is a shallow glass or plastic cylindrical lidded dish that biologists use to culture cells or small moss plants. It was named after German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri, who invented it when working as an assistant to Robert Koch. Glass Petri dishes can be reused by sterilization. For experiments where cross-contamination from one experiment to the next can become a problem, plastic Petri dishes are often used as disposables. Modern Petri dishes often have rings on the lids and bases, which allow them to be stacked so that they do not slide off one another. Multiple dishes can also be incorporated into one plastic container to create what is called a "multi-well plate". Petri dishes are usually used to culture bacteria.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of petri dish in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of petri dish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of petri dish in a Sentence

1. Jonathan Peterschmitt:

   So we were in the same petri dish for a week.

2. Julie Russak:

   When we’re doing it (irradiating) inside human hands, there’s definitely a difference, most of the UV irradiation is absorbed by the top layer of the skin. When you irradiate cells in the petri dish directly, that’s slightly different. You don’t have any protection from the skin, from corneocytes or the top layers. It’s also very direct UVA irradiation.

3. Mark Vautour:

   We've joked for years that trains are like a petri dish.

4. Velma Moody:

   That's where they go. And now these nursing homes are like a petri dish for the continued development of this virus that is killing us.

5. Jay Clayton:

   Hopefully we have a little bit of a Petri dish.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=petri dish
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Petri_Dish
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
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