Plate

Introduction: Plate

Description of Plate

Plate: (1) [TA], anatomy a thin, relatively flat, structure. SYN: lamina [TA]. (2) A metal bar perforated for screws applied to a fractured bone to maintain the ends in apposition. (3) The agar layer within a Petri dish or similar vessel. (4) To form a thin layer of a bacterial culture by streaking it on the surface of an agar plate (usually within a Petri dish) to isolate individual organisms from which a colonial clone will develop. (5) Any of the horizontal perforated plates that make up the fractionating component of a column in fractional distillation (or, the theoretic equivalent of such a plate). [O.Fr. plat, a flat object, fr. G. platys, flat, broad]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Plate: any flat platelike body structure or part.
Source: WordNet 2.1

Terms associated with Plate:

More specific terms for Plate:

• operculum
• comb
• lamina

Source - WordNet 2.1

Broader terms for Plate

• structure
• anatomical structure
• complex body part
• bodily structure
• body structure

Source - WordNet 2.1

Hierarchical classifications of Plate

The following list attempts to classify Plate into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• anatomical structure,bodily structure,body structure,complex body part,structure
• body part
• part,piece
• thing
• entity

Source: WordNet 2.1

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