Petri dish
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- noun
- /ˈpɛtri dɪʃ/
- Specialized
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plato de Petri
- In the lab, she placed a sample of the culture in a sterile Petri dish.
So what saved all those many lives wasn't just Fleming's observation in a Petri dish.
- So what saved all those many lives wasn't just Fleming's observation in a Petri dish.
- And the neurons in that Petri dish are tuned to the place in the field where Pong lives.
- And so this was the first time maybe ever that humans got to start to observe human cells in Petri dishes in the context of nature's communication flow.
- And if taken out, put into a Petri dish and given the appropriate factors, you can drive the fate of those stem cells to be, say, neurons or cardiac cells.
- One, that the result in the Petri dish won't scale.
- Let's just use that as a maybe like a, a Petri dish for you to explain these steps.
- So like time or distance or number of wins or spores in a Petri dish, etc.
- But these six areas of our work are also the the Petri dishes that the chronic stress of our work can incubate inside of.
Examples
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Classic science experiment: you have a Petri dish; on it are a banana, an apple, and a pear.
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In room 192 of Robbins Hall, a brick building not far from the student union, thousands of microscopic plantlets grow in Petri dishes bathed in pink and fluorescent blue light.
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Cell culture is done in in Petri dishes, a lot of plastic and not a lot of surface.
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Thus far, the particles have only been tested in Petri dishes.
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Normal cells require tethering to the bottom of a Petri dish in order to grow cancer cells.
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So let's start with a picture of these two Petri dishes growing E coli.
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The short answer is that bacteria love the wet, warm Petri dish you've provided them.
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And then we put this filter on one of these Petri dishes, and then we can cultivate and count the number of bacteria that was in that ear sample.
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But one of the things that they can't figure out, because if we put these bone cells in a Petri dish, they don't act the same way as they do in the body.
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By working to create an inspiring space and filling it with accessible and exciting tools, the spacemaker will have an excellent Petri dish in which to study the best ecosystem for growth.
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Morphology
Petri + dish
The form 'Petri dish' transparently signals 'a kind of dish' because of the noun composition with 'dish', but 'Petri' is an eponym/proper name that gives no clue to the technical function. A B1 learner who knows 'dish' may guess it is a type of vessel but would not predict the specialised meaning 'for culturing microorganisms', so the expression is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Petri dish gets its name from a German scientist named Julius Petri, who made a shallow round dish to 'grow' bacteria and other tiny living things in the lab. That's why today a Petri dish means the small plate scientists use to 'grow' and study germs.