Should Petri Dish Be Capitalized?

Capitalization. Petri should contain a capital P. If you read scientific texts it will usually be capitalised. Search Pubmed or something for an article containing Petri dishes for examples, it's pretty much universally capital P.

How do you use petri dish in a sentence?

It usually happens on the midnight tour, the petri dish of police misbehavior. I'm trying to grow bacteria with unflavored gelatin in petri dishes. The endless buses of news media were its principal petri dish. It's like other businesses, but in an accelerated petri dish ."

How do you spell Petri as in petri dish?

A Petri dish (alternatively known as a Petri plate or cell-culture dish) is a shallow transparent lidded dish that biologists use to hold growth medium in which cells can be cultured, originally, cells of bacteria, fungi and small mosses.