PETRI DISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Petri dish mean? 

• PETRI DISH (noun)
  The noun PETRI DISH has 1 sense:

1. a shallow dish used to culture bacteria

  Familiarity information: PETRI DISH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PETRI DISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shallow dish used to culture bacteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("Petri dish" is a kind of...):

dish (a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food)

 Context examples 

A unit of cell concentration expressed as a number of cells per a petri dish.

(Cell per Dish, NCI Thesaurus)

“So we kept looking around,” Woo said, saying the next option was photosynthetic bacteria called cyanobacteria because it is “more rugged” and could survive with heart cells in a petri dish.

(Oxygen-Producing Bacteria Could Help Heart Attack Sufferers, VOA News)

The growing of microbes in test tube or petri dish type environments

(Culturing, In Vitro Microbial, NCI Thesaurus)

Currently, scientists grow neurons in petri dishes to study their behavior in a controllable environment.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

Moreover, neurons grown alone in tissue chips had firing patterns and gene activity that were more mature than cells grown in petri dishes.

(Researchers begin recreating human spinal cords on a chip, National Institutes of Health)

The research looks at a large population of American women, at lab mice, and at brain tissue in petri dishes to establish a link between serious cognitive decline and the very fine particles of pollution emitted by motor vehicles, power plants and the burning of biomass products such as wood.

(The Surprising Link between Air Pollution, Alzheimer’s Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Unlike traditional petri dish systems, tissue chips help researchers grow cells in more life-like environments.

(Researchers begin recreating human spinal cords on a chip, National Institutes of Health)

The tissue chips allowed the researchers to grow neurons and blood vessels together, which was impossible to do in petri dishes.

(Researchers begin recreating human spinal cords on a chip, National Institutes of Health)