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plate medical definition
noun
- A smooth, flat, relatively thin, rigid body of uniform thickness.
- A thin flat layer, part, or structure.
- A thin metallic or plastic support fitted to the gums to anchor artificial teeth.
- A metal bar applied to a fractured bone in order to maintain the ends in apposition.
- The agar layer within a Petri dish or similar vessel.
- A sheet of glass or metal that is light-sensitive and on which a photographic image can be recorded.
To form a very thin layer of a bacterial culture by streaking it on the surface of agar to isolate individual organisms from which a colonial clone will develop.
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