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specimen
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[ noun ] an example regarded as typical of its class
Used in print (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)Alphonse_R_._Hoge 's measurements of several very young specimens from Brazil suggest that at_birth the female is slightly larger than the male . (J. W. C. Hagstrom et al., "Debilitating muscular...)In February , 1959 , during the second admission to The New_York_Hospital , a biopsy specimen of the left gastrocnemius showed striking increase in the sarcolemmal sheath nuclei and shrunken muscle_fibers in several sections . (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)Another specimen of such double-entendre is illustrated by a woman in a department_store . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (medicine) a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes
Examples "they collected a urine specimen for urinalysis" Used in print (Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)These wavelengths are reflected in sequence through the specimen by the rotating mirror ; the specimen is magnified by the microscope . These wavelengths are reflected in sequence through the specimen by the rotating mirror ; the specimen is magnified by the microscope . The result is a color picture of the specimen where the primary colors correspond to the three different ultraviolet wavelengths . Related terms |
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