specimen
specimen
Definition
speci·men (spes′ə mən)
noun
- a part of a whole, or one individual of a class or group, used as a sample or example of the whole, class, or group; typical part, individual, etc.
- Informal a (specified kind of) individual or person an unsavory specimen
- Med. a sample, as of urine, sputum, or blood, for analysis
Etymology: L, a mark, token, example < specere, to see: see spy
specimen
Synonyms
specimen
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- urine: Please take a specimen of urine to your doctor's surgery tomorrow for testing.
- feces: In some cases it may be necessary to collect specimens of feces for analysis to confirm the presence of a pathogenic organism.
Converse of object
- preserve: The painting was based on a preserved specimen belonging to the great American artist J.J. Audubon, a close friend of Macgillivray's.
- collect: Traveling the country in his private railroad carriage, his aim was to collect specimens of every British bird.
Adjective modifier
- geological: It is a great pity we cannot get geological specimens.
- pathological: The majority of pathological specimens from the museum were transferred to the Clinical Sciences Department of Leicester Royal Infirmary in 1985.
- resected: The diameters of the resected specimens ranged from approximately 1.0 cm to 2.3 cm.
- botanical: He retired in 1858; and after some traveling, spent the rest of his life collecting botanical specimens from around the world.
- surgical: Tumor size was defined as maximum diameter of the tumor measured from the surgical specimen.
Modifies a noun
- carp: The membership includes Old Bury Hill Lake, Temple Lake our new specimen carp lake.
- thickness: At present, the specimen is not centrally loaded through the specimen thickness.
- conifer: There are also some specimen conifers, planted in the 1800's by the estate landowner of the time.
- lake: The membership includes Old Bury Hill Lake, Temple Lake our new specimen carp lake.
- hunter: The largest tackle shop in the area it has a complete matchman's range; and specimen hunter 's requirements too.
Noun used with modifier
- herbarium: We aim to database the majority of MOL's herbarium specimens of forest trees.
- biopsy: A cell culture assay is a lab test performed on a biopsy specimen containing living cancer cells.
- urine: The research will take the form of a blind evaluation of urine specimens provided by the National CJD Surveillance Unit in Edinburgh.
- sputum: The GP may arrange for sputum specimens to be sent to the laboratory.
- cytology: THURSDAYS ONLY 9.15 Collect Cytology specimens from HHGH path lab, SACH path lab and transport to Cytology Dept, Watford General.
- voucher: The difficulty of identification presented by this group means that all records must be confirmed with a voucher specimen.
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