Collocations withspecimen
These are words often used in combination withspecimen.
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biological specimen
When it is used for research it is a biological specimen.
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biopsy specimen
The diagnosis in these patients should be conformed with a bone biopsy specimen.
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botanical specimens
Wells and a sailor ascended the ridge to the north of the bay, gathering botanical specimens along the way.
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clinical specimen
Furthermore, the mouse tumours exhibited patterns of marker expression similar to those of clinical specimens.
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faecal specimen
The faecal specimen was usually collected on the first visit to the doctor (median 1, range 1-6 visits).
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fine specimen
A particularly fine specimen is a small anthropomorphic figurine pendant, sculpted in a soft greenish sandstone.
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geological specimen
They made extensive collections of insects, other invertebrates, and geological specimens.
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herbarium specimen
The ants from this herbarium specimen are in the author's research collection, specimen no.
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known specimen
The type and only known specimen was first mechanically prepared with a compressed air engraver.
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live specimen
The fossil record of the coelacanth is unique because coelacanth fossils were found 100 years before the first live specimen was identified.
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living specimen
Owing to the enormous mass of eggs, only the terminal part of the excretory vesicle could be observed even in the living specimen.
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mature specimen
The rest of the gardens comprise lawns, with numerous mature specimen trees, including redwood, beech, and sycamore.
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mineral specimen
For many years the sale of mineral specimens from the mine was forbidden, as tungsten was a strategic mineral.
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mounted specimen
In this book, there is a photograph of the mounted specimen.
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physical specimen
This boy—and he was little more—was a fine, healthy physical specimen, who, until he was recently struck down, had, from his early years, enjoyed physical health.
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preserved specimen
Well preserved specimen showing the flat to slightly domed endopodal lobes with the reticulate scratch mark pattern.
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rare specimen
Indeed, if one were seen at all it was recorded by the naturalists as a rare specimen.
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single specimen
A single specimen has been recovered, and although noticeably different from any species so far described, it is not named formally here.
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specimen tree
It is planted as a specimen tree or in mass screenings.
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stool specimen
We describe changes in stool specimen sensitivity for poliovirus isolation during a time when wild poliovirus transmission has been rapidly declining.
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surgical specimen
The surgical specimen consisted of a small bowel measuring 28 cm and a tract of large bowel measuring 20 cm with a 4 cm appendix.
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voucher specimen
A voucher specimen of the fruits and vegetative material were also obtained.
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zoological specimen
In addition, live zoological specimens have been admissible without payment under open individual licences held by certain zoos for various periods.
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