Synonym: example, representative, sample, type. Similar words: specify, species, special, specific, specious, specialty, especially, specialist. Meaning: ['spesɪmən] n. 1. an example regarded as typical of its class 2. a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes.
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31 He found himself confronted by a sorrier specimen than himself.
32 Dissection of the gallbladder was concluded uneventfully, but during removal through the umbilical incision the specimen ruptured.
33 A sputum specimen was obtained and sent to the laboratory for analysis.
34 He was amazed by the specimen, which was very tough and six metres long.
35 The driver refused and was in due course convicted by justices of failing to provide a specimen without reasonable excuse.
36 Sometimes the natural processes of erosion will etch a perfect specimen.
37 There was no evidence of mucosal prolapse in any anterior wall biopsy specimen.
38 Therefore it is an easy but hardy specimen to grow in the aquarium.
39 Even so, one naughty specimen, avoiding the fate of its fellows, buzzed around McAllister's head.
40 But the corpus is a singular specimen, whose like is seldom seen on screen.
41 As befits its relatively young geological age, the specimen is preserved with its original shell material.
42 Another patient developed a persistent hepatitis of unknown aetiology at six months followed by a normal biopsy specimen at 15 months.
43 When there are no chloride ions left in the specimen to react, the end-point is reached.
44 The average female specimen grows to about 10 centimetres in length, and the male 3-4 centimetres longer.
45 On the other side of the terrace a raised bed provides visual balance and accommodates a specimen juniper and winter flowering heathers.
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46 A 24-or 72-hour fecal specimen should be collected; the latter being the specimen of choice.
47 White says that to be a clavicle, the specimen should have an S- or sigmoid curie, but it does not.
48 Accordingly it was held that the breath specimen had been inadmissible in evidence.
49 The essence of any collection of stamps or of teapots must be that each specimen belongs in a distinct category.
50 Somehow they had got it into their heads that the specimen was at least fifteen thousand years old.
51 This process corrects any respiratory imbalance that might be present in the specimen.
52 Then came the announcement that a further set of specimen questions would be sent out to primary schools in September.
53 A specimen of the fluid was used for bacteriological studies including microscopy and culture on plates for aerobic and anaerobic bacteria.
54 Laboratory protocol should include procedures that assure that the correct specimen is collected and that the specimen is correctly labeled.
55 Place the acetate film gently across the lower margin of the specimen where a pool of acetone will have collected.
56 The absence of a low folate value should not deter the physician from obtaining a duodenal biopsy specimen.
57 The preferred specimen in screening for exposure to methanol or salicylate is serum.
58 Mr Atkins was charged on four specimen counts of theft.
59 But once in place[sentencedict.com], a cactus is unlikely to remain a solitary specimen for long.
60 Expand existing facilities or build new facilities that can adequately and safely maintain a specimen bank of etiologic agents and clinical specimens.
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