A shallow, circular, transparent dish with a flat lid, used for the culture of microorganisms.
皮氏培养皿，陪替氏培养皿
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Approximately 30 seeds were placed on 25 ml of agar-solidified culture medium in Petri dishes.
Serial dilutions of homogenized lungs were plated on Petri dishes containing trypticase soy agar.
Twenty fresh anthers were selected from ten plants at random; ten were kept on dry blotting paper in Petri dishes and the other ten were kept in Petri dishes containing water-saturated blotting paper.
For irradiation, cells were cultured in Petri dishes and synchronized by contact inhibition in confluent cultures.
Five pieces of embryogenic tissue were cultured in Petri dishes containing 35 ml maturation medium.
Origin
Late 19th century: named after Julius R. Petri (1852–1922), German bacteriologist.