A small quantity of a product, typically provided to test that product before obtaining a greater quantity of it.
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Specimen sample results from all three cases are expected in coming days.
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Conclusion: Adhesion molecule levels are stable under normal laboratory sample handling conditions.
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Limitations: Small sample size; second inspection was performed by the same endoscopist.
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But it's a temperamental standard that requires a precisely prepared water sample.
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The sample sent to South Korea was subsequently destroyed, the Pentagon said.
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He couldn't quite believe that this rank-smelling specimen was his former master.
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I didn't explain the source of the specimen, and they didn't ask.
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No cases were admitted to hospital at the time of specimen collection.
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The last song may be given in the vernacular as a specimen:
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The other morning I overheard the nurse talking to this particular specimen.
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There is no specimen of any of the Hirundines in the Museum.
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Methods: Tumor tissue was taken from the surgical specimen by the histopathologist.
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The relevant body part is isolated in each case, like a specimen.
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A specimen is exhibited in the hall of the South Kensington Museum.
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This is the most unique specimen of mediæval architecture in the North.
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Now my fist is closed and I have the specimen in it.
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Histopathologic examination of the resected specimen provided an assessment of treatment response.
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It is the first specimen received by a North American zoological park.
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There is a specimen of this fine animal in the British Museum.
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They had come to our laboratory with a very rare specimen indeed.
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Illustration: The nursery or single-specimen type of planting in a front yard
