noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
antral
▪ Another of the antral biopsy specimens was Gram stained and cultured.
▪ H pylori infection was proved by positive cultures or histological identification, or both in antral specimens from 113 patients.
▪ Endoscopic gastric antral biopsy specimens were also obtained for urease activity, culture, and histology.
▪ The antral biopsy specimens were fixed in formalin and processed routinely.
colonic
▪ The results were compared with those obtained when culturing colonic specimens in the absence of the lymphocyte preparation.
▪ The patients were given supplementation for one month and colonic biopsy specimens were taken before and at the end of the trial.
▪ Figure 2 illustrates lysozyme mRNA in a colonic biopsy specimen from a patient with longstanding ulcerative colitis.
▪ In colonic biopsy specimens from normal and colitic controls inappropriate staining is less evident.
▪ We showed that luminol enhanced chemiluminescence from colonic mucosa biopsy specimens is increased in patients with ulcerative colitis.
dried
▪ This involved ecology, rather than just arranging dried specimens in interesting patterns.
endoscopic
▪ All endoscopic biopsy specimens and gastrectomy material were reviewed and classified according to the proposals of Isaacson etal.
fine
▪ There is a fine specimen of this noble tree - the tallest in Britain - at Stourhead in Wiltshire.
▪ The reliquary was a fine specimen of that type of art and of very good quality and in fine condition.
▪ At the next table sit two fine specimens of Mancunian youth.
▪ Wrap the finest dessert specimens individually, in some newspaper.
▪ There were nine in ... some of which are fine specimens of their order.
gastric
▪ Grossly normal appearing gastric biopsy specimens were taken from healthy volunteers.
▪ Endoscopic gastric antral biopsy specimens were also obtained for urease activity, culture, and histology.
▪ In the gastric mucosal biopsy specimens a severe phlegmonous inflammation was found.
large
▪ The ventral interradial areas are partially naked, but in some large specimens often covered with overlapping plates.
▪ Never, he proclaims, has he seen such magnificent large specimens.
▪ Stake large specimens and protect the young plants from cold winds until growing steadily.
▪ In larger specimens the upper one may reach to the first white band.
▪ Perhaps developments in electronically stored holograms will reduce the need to keep very large suites of specimens.
▪ The radial shields are oval, usually naked in all but the largest specimens.
▪ Thee are 9 arm spines proximally, 7-8 distally in large specimens, 6-8 on smaller ones.
▪ The oral plates and adoral shields often have scattered granules which become more numerous in larger specimens.
mucosal
▪ Six mucosal biopsy specimens were taken from the antrum and four from both the corpus and fundus of the stomach.
▪ Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and colonoscopy were macroscopically normal and mucosal biopsy specimens were obtained.
▪ In the gastric mucosal biopsy specimens a severe phlegmonous inflammation was found.
perfect
▪ The Breed Standard describes what is considered to be a perfect specimen of the breed.
▪ The pool is clear and still, filled with perfect specimens.
▪ Sometimes the natural processes of erosion will etch a perfect specimen.
▪ This man was exceedingly presentable, a bit too perfect a specimen for me to approach, I felt.
▪ With the prospect of perfect specimens, they did this thoroughly.
physical
▪ Along with being very impressive physical specimens.
▪ Hardy, a tremendous physical specimen, is expected to be one the first two players picked in the April 20 draft.
▪ We are, after all, a superb physical specimen.
▪ Some time passed before Anwar noticed that his much-anticipated son-in-law wasn't the rippling physical specimen he'd expected.
▪ He was a slight man, a little above average height, but by no means a. prime physical specimen.
rare
▪ Here is a black middle-class man speaking: Professional blacks are treated as rare specimens by most of their white colleagues.
▪ He treats Jody like a rare specimen.
▪ Stan never sells rare specimens to the public.
▪ Here gardeners can pay anything from £10 for some of the popular varieties to five hundred pounds for a rare prize specimen.
▪ It is an important and rare specimen.
single
▪ Precision refers to the extent of agreement between repetitive analyses of aliquots of a single specimen.
▪ Some trees have so much native scent that a single specimen can evoke whole forests.
small
▪ Many miles from camp they came upon a small specimen partially coated with a frothy greenish-tan crust.
▪ The fish grows to about seven or eight inches, but smaller specimens are obtainable.
▪ However, it should be noted that the smaller specimens die more quickly than the larger ones.
▪ Then I taste a small specimen, closely observing its flavor, smell, texture, and bite before spitting it out.
▪ The dorsal arm plates are rounded in smaller specimens becoming hexagonal in the larger ones; they are not contiguous.
▪ A small specimen of tissue can be taken for examination through a biopsy channel.
▪ The smaller specimens I returned to the water, but anything over six inches long I fried for breakfast.
surgical
▪ Histology of the surgical specimen showed no cancer.
▪ Epithelial and lamina propria mononuclear cells were isolated from surgical specimens from control, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis patients.
▪ Tumours of this size are not identified clinically except incidentally in surgical specimens removed because of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
▪ Erosions and ulcerations were generally present. Surgical specimens Two surgical specimens were examined.
▪ Surgical specimens Two surgical specimens were examined.
▪ The surgical specimen, however, proved to be benign.
■ NOUN
biopsy
▪ Patients underwent gastric endoscopy with biopsy specimens taken for determination of the histological endocrine cell status.
▪ Strictly speaking, however, the latter determination can be made only by examination of a bone biopsy specimen.
▪ A repeated endoscopy and biopsy specimens of the gastric lesions showed no change.
▪ Duodenal biopsy specimens were taken in 50 patients.
▪ In 10 patients receiving combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the endoscopic lesions resolved and biopsy specimens were negative.
▪ In those patients from whom two biopsy specimens had been taken, slides were read by the same examiner.
▪ The other five were histologically normal colonoscopic biopsy specimens taken from children investigated for abdominal pain.
▪ In eight of the 11 patients, full thickness intestinal biopsy specimens were available for histological examination.
blood
▪ With the blood specimen in his left hand ... he started along the main corridor on his way toward the stairs.
▪ Buffer base is a term which refers to the total quantity of buffers present in a whole blood specimen.
▪ A blood specimen is drawn 45 minutes from the time of injection.
▪ He then handed me two grand-jury subpoenas, one to produce physical evidence a blood specimen and one to testify.
breath
▪ Accordingly it was held that the breath specimen had been inadmissible in evidence.
tissue
▪ In each case, several tissue specimens were fixed with aqueous Bouin's solution.
tree
▪ A full range of material is available from shrubs and whips to specimen trees.
▪ It makes a lovely, colourful specimen tree for a small garden.
▪ We want some specimen trees in the park, for instance, and I'd like you to recommend something quick-growing.
▪ Notable gardens of great variety, including fine old cedars and specimen trees, herbaceous borders, water and wild gardens.
▪ The gardens are now a mixture of municipal bedding and 19C specimen trees, all somewhat disfigured by eye-level lollipop lighting.
▪ A specimen tree on the lawn beside the Manor House, a Wellingtonia, is 130 years old and 40 metres high.
▪ The spacious gardens include herbaceous, rose and evergreen borders, and many specimen trees.
urine
▪ However, when urine specimens were screened there were several positives in the modern pentathlon contest.
▪ The type of light chain excreted in the urine may be identified by performing immuno-electrophoresis on a concentrated urine specimen. 173.
▪ No further food or fluid was consumed, except for the standard meal until the last urine specimen had been collected.
▪ That is, until something turned up somehow in C.J.'s urine specimen.
▪ To overcome the problems of collecting a 24 hour urine specimen, an overnight collection was made.
▪ It is just picking people out randomly, with no grounds for suspicion, and forcing them to give urine specimens.
▪ A 24-hour urine specimen should be collected to determine creatinine clearance, and protein and uric acid excretion.
■ VERB
collect
▪ He was lightly wounded at Detroit and wrote papers on ethnography, as well as collecting specimens wherever his career sent him.
▪ On postmortem dissections of collected specimens, I found every stomach packed solidly full of sulfide minerals.
▪ Entomology became more fashionable once better killing bottles provided the squeamish with a less offensive method of collecting specimens.
▪ Laboratory protocol should include procedures that assure that the correct specimen is collected and that the specimen is correctly labeled.
▪ Since then, field parties have returned to the Allan Hills region every year and collected more than 1200 specimens.
▪ If requested, collect specimens of urine from diabetic residents.
examine
▪ A mean number of 10 well orientated crypts were examined for each specimen.
find
▪ Intrinsic factor and hydrogen-potassium ATPase activity were found in all specimens, including those of 13 and 15 weeks' gestation.
▪ I find three more specimens of the giant clam, and the following day, two.
▪ That year they found 12 more specimens.
▪ Returning in 1979 to search ice patches near the Belgica as well as the Yamato Mountains, they found about 3000 more specimens!
▪ If these are available then the problem of finding a suitable specimen shape and size does not arise.
▪ No carcinoma was found in the specimen.
keep
▪ It is quite possible to keep a lone specimen but to see them at their best a group is preferable.
▪ They can be territorial, so if keeping several specimens in the same aquarium allow plenty of hiding places.
obtain
▪ The results were compared with those obtained when culturing colonic specimens in the absence of the lymphocyte preparation.
▪ After the harvest he planted the beet again the following spring, hoping to obtain seed from the specimen.
▪ The authors endeavour to obtain specimens from as varied sources as possible.
▪ With luck the amateur collector should be able to obtain specimens as splendid.
▪ To ensure that the breeding of such fish is continued we will try to obtain new specimens whenever possible.
▪ To obtain a hand specimen we rely on the differential weathering of the sponge and the matrix.
▪ The absence of a low folate value should not deter the physician from obtaining a duodenal biopsy specimen.
▪ The opportunity should be used to obtain duodenal biopsy specimens.
preserve
▪ No doubt the ice sheet preserves specimens that would weather away more quickly in other regions.
▪ He had preserved of the specimens and still took them out now and then to look at them.
▪ Gould was torn between the need to preserve his specimens and the desire to keep them a secret.
▪ Note however, that the stout spines are not preserved on these specimens.
provide
▪ The driver refused and was in due course convicted by justices of failing to provide a specimen without reasonable excuse.
▪ Accordingly, I require you to provide an alternative specimen, which will be submitted for laboratory analysis.
▪ If you provide a specimen you will be offered part of it in a suitable container.
▪ If you fail to provide a specimen you may be liable to prosecution.
▪ There is a desperate need to provide these precious specimens with surroundings that are better designed to ensure their preservation.
▪ Nuphar, Nymphaea and Nymphoides species provide good specimens for the aquarist.
send
▪ To help popularize them, he was sending specimens to a few lucky customers for showroom display.
show
▪ Your picture shows a splendid specimen of the Norfolk Island pine, Araucaria heterophylla.
take
▪ They had come to take specimens from the patients to send to a virology lab in Johannesburg.
▪ The admitting doctor had taken a specimen from the child's spine and sent it to the Lab.
▪ To limit sampling error, we took multiple biopsy specimens at standardised sites.
▪ He had taken specimens of blood and throat swabs, and these waited on the cupboard to go to the laboratory.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a very fine specimen of 12th century glass
▪ Johnston is a 6-foot-2, 242-pound specimen from Syracuse University.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A 24-or 72-hour fecal specimen should be collected; the latter being the specimen of choice.
▪ ET-1-like immunoreactivity and mRNA were also present in pulmonary vascular endothelial cells, particularly in specimens from patients with pulmonary hypertension.
▪ He had preserved of the specimens and still took them out now and then to look at them.
▪ Here is a black middle-class man speaking: Professional blacks are treated as rare specimens by most of their white colleagues.
▪ Small specimens do fairly well in tanks, but they are not among the most hardy aquarium fishes.
▪ The oral shields are large and arrow shaped but in some specimens the shield may be more rounded.
▪ The pool is clear and still, filled with perfect specimens.
▪ Therefore it is an easy but hardy specimen to grow in the aquarium.