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Petri dish

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Petri dish
a shallow circular flat-bottomed dish, often with a fitting cover, used in laboratories, esp for producing cultures of microorganisms


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If Bill Hoffman (Ted Danson) is a brilliant psychotherapist with a keen understanding of mental illness, it's because he serves pretty capably as his own personal Petri dish of neuroses.
IVF always involves the conception of human embryo(s) in a petri dish rather than the mother's body.
Using a silicon chip-embedded petri dish, the new system can process about 1,000 floating cells in 30 minutes.
 
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