How To Use Specimen In A Sentence
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These astragali have four clearly defined surfaces and were probably the antecedents of the ordinary six-faced cube or die, specimens of which are datable as far back as 3000 B.C.
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Some fine Specimens of lava from a partially active Volcano in the province of [gap word illegible], in the extreme north of Japan.
Letter to Dr. Thomas from Young John AllenNov 19 1866
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Among these are the best specimen of the dome-skulled chalicothere Tylocephalonyx skinneri, and type specimens of several other mammals, including rodents, oreodonts and carnivores.
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Specimens are rarely found in one unbroken piece, and the process of reconstituting them is akin to completing a jigsaw puzzle.
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Hematopathology – Providing complete evaluations of lymphoid and hematologic specimens.
Anatomic Pathology
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In this case the experiment involves using a hydraulic press to crush specimen cubes of the concrete, and measuring the pressure at which the cube breaks.
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A herbarium is a collection of dried, generally mounted, plant specimens used for a number of purposes, including documenting the taxonomy of a species or like a library that contains a collection of books for reading or useful materials for common use.
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The appropriate specimens to submit for testing include food (in the original container if it is available) or environmental specimens, stool, serum, gastric contents, or vomitus.
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To determine the extent of gastric metaplasia, multiple biopsy specimens were collected from standardised sites of the duodenal bulb.
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All specimens are exuviae, with thin and fragile carapaces and abdomens and fragmentary bodies and appendages.
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The tree's coppicing habit, the way one specimen can have dozens of trunks, means that in places the pines look like a wall of bamboo, rather than relatives of the giant Araucariaceae that line the foreshores of Sydney beaches.
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This is cheap and easy to do with specimens such as berberis, buddleia, cornus, kerria, philadelphus, spirea and willow.
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There are some potential disadvantages of using biopsy specimens as opposed to epithelial cell preparations for metabolic studies.
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In addition to the unique single vascular system, these new specimens exhibit a distinct six ridged external shape, and an integumentary morphology shared by no other medullosan ovules.
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To date, more than 20 specimens of D. australis have been collected at this locality, all within galleries and with dislocated plastrons.
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Is not this concentrated respect for the object as a specimen the very antithesis of the arts in education?
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The packed cell volume is determined by centrifuging the specimen in capillary tubes and measuring the height of the red cell column.
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Over 800+ cataloged specimens from seven species of dinosaur, including the type specimen of the first Jurassic ankylosaur Mymoorapelta, have been recovered from this bonebed.
Cooperative Management of Paleontological Resources on Federal Lands in Mesa County, Colorado
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[FN#134] A fair specimen of the Arab logogriph derived from the
Arabian nights. English
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We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen'd such squeamishness in Attic salt.
Arabian nights. English
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I also saw a large tree and obtained specimens of it, belonging to the natural order BIGNONIACEAE, with terminal spikes of yellow flowers, and rough cordate leaves; and a proteaceous plant with long compound racemes of white flowers, and deeply cut leaves, resembling a tree with true pinnate leaves.
Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York
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Ray then spent thirteen years travelling around Britain and Europe collecting specimens and studying animals.
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During late August and in September specimen coalfish, cod and conger up to 35 lb have been recorded.
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Specimens have been found all over the world, but it's not clear if they have regular migration patterns.
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The presence of gastroliths (gizzard stones) in the rib cages of some specimens shows that this view is correct.
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Hundreds of fossils are locked in glass cases, specimens from all over southern Africa: shells and worms and nautiluses and seed ferns and trilobites, and minerals, too; yellow-green crystals and gleaming clusters of quartz; mosquitoes in drops of amber; scheelite, wulfenite.
Memory Wall
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He was charged with failing to provide a specimen.
The Sun
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There is little development of the lambdoidal crest but in some specimens it is slightly better developed than in others.
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The possibility that this scrappy specimen has also undergone very significant deformation should be considered.
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The specimens were subjected to element analysis by an energy-dispersive spectrometer.
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The results are in general agreement with the previous typological categories defined by Railey in showing a general progression from incurvate, thin specimens to excurvate, thicker forms through time.
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He has been so little read that four specimens of his different manners -- the early "tenebrous" style of _The
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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Employees must wear gloves whenever they obtain, handle, or process patient specimens.
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If you provide a specimen you will be offered part of it in a suitable container.
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Its surface had become heavily crazed, making it impossible to examine the specimen, so the balsam was removed with xylene.
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Specimens for bacterial cultures can be obtained with swabs or aspiration.
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Several desmids investigated had nuclei too large to be accommodated by the photometer aperture system and could easily have had nuclear DNA contents in excess of 4x specimens that were measured.
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Unlike your average male specimen, he did not look proud and boastful when first me, then Riley squealed over his car.
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There occurs in great numbers a species of small Pecten, -- some of the specimens scarce larger than a herring scale; a minute Ostrea, a sulcated Terebratula, an Isocardia, a Pullastra, and groups of broken serpulæ in vast abundance.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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A programme of testing several thousand pathological specimens of appendixes and tonsils was started.
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A number of the specimens collected were attacked by a parasitic mucor of the genus _Spinellus_.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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I feel though that this experiment is incomplete and requires further knowledge due to the inexplicit fact that this is in fact only one group of specimens dubbing it as a theory.
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The specimens were fixed overnight in neutral buffered 10% formalin and embedded in paraffin wax.
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-- Elegant half-hardy annuals, which can be grown as specimens for the conservatory, or in quantity for open borders.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
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Davies, wishing to give dignity to his Celtic mythology, determines to find the arkite idolatry there too, and the style in which he proceeds to do this affords a good specimen of the extravagance which has caused Celtic antiquity to be looked upon with so much suspicion.
Celtic Literature
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The type specimen is deposited in the writer's herbarium, and a cotype may be found in the
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
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They use contrastive typefaces for distinct purposes, such as bold-face type for headwords, roman for definitions, italics for abbreviated codes and specimen words and phrases, and small capitals for cross-references.
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A collection of cacti xerophytic plants - over 800 specimens - is exhibited in the nearby cactus house.
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_Trifolium_, _Coronilla_, &c.Prof. Oliver forwarded me a specimen of
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Marcasite, when viewed in hand specimen, tends to form crudely banded masses or massive aggregates.
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Specimens of varieties of the lichens used in the manufacture of cudbear, orchil and litmus, and of the substance obtained, were also shown in the British department, which were awarded prize medals.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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In external beauty, in paper, type, presswork, and binding, and all that belongs to solid and elegant book-making, the volume is a fine specimen of German skill, good taste, and thoroughness.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 10, March 10, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
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The name of this illustrious saint is intimately connected with a most magnificent specimen of calligraphical art of the eighth century, preserved in the
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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Covered with eye images and other biomorphic motifs (that frequently recall eccentric abstractionists such as Myron Stout and Nicholas Krushenick), these unreal botanical specimens exhibit a delightful variety.
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Results: In this study, the ophthalmic, clinoid segment of contralateral ICA and the contralateral superior hypophyseal artery were successfully exposed in all specimens (15 specimens, 30 sides).
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Mature specimens develop a thick trunk and stems with leaves and flowers at the top of the plant, often too high for the gardener to enjoy.
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Outside we saw large tables covered high with specimens of kyanite in quartz.
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Second, confocal detection is inherently inefficient, often requiring more illumination of the live specimen than it can endure before bleaching or phototoxicity occurs.
NIH Public Access - Seeing Circuits Assemble
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I require you to provide a specimen of breath for a breath test.
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While the latter made our childhood dreams come true, the former (and dishier) specimen is, of course, the correct answer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of these specimens exhibit crystals that are cubic in habit; however, octahedra of both blue-gray and medium green have also been common.
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Buck Abbey, a landscape professor at Louisiana State University, who has studied the effects of hurricane-force winds on plants, notes that the interknit canopy of a grove of trees tend to ride out high winds better than lone specimens -- especially if they're native varieties with wide, spreading branches, low centers of gravity, small leaves and deep root systems.
Trees That Stand Up to Storms
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It occurs on conchoidal fracture surfaces developed in clay and tuffaceous sandstone on the Green Velvet claims, Inyo County, and as ‘specimens’ on the Wakefield property near Pozo, San Luis Obispo County.
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Most such specimens are partially coated with a druse of calcite, epidote, and small, clear needle quartz crystals.
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Pulsatilla, the pasque flower, is a real stunner with showy lilac flowers and you'll find an excellent specimen at Glasnevin in the Sensory Garden.
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They were wrapped in two-ply airtight plastic bags and stored at - 20 degrees C. Before testing, each specimen was thawed for 24 hours at room temperature.
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Most of the specimens have been washed, and all have undergone scientific osteological analyses.
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A few specimens from the Red Dwarf deposit have recently been cut into cabochons, but none have yet been faceted.
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Specimens collected during invasive speculum examination have long been necessary for the conventional laboratory diagnosis of vaginal discharge diseases.
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This little sally may be considered as a specimen of that playful sprightliness which is so much the characteristic of the french female.
The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.
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Low specimens make a good yellow carpet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Blood sample for HIV serology and two sputum specimens were collected from each patient.
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Examination of the gastrectomy specimen revealed an indurated tumor with central ulceration located in the fundus.
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Among the curiosities are the necklace [FN#682] of human bones given to Burton by Gelele, some specimens of old Istrian china picked up in the cottages near Trieste, and a three-sided mirror and two crystals with which Burton used to mesmerise his wife.
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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The unique specimen of Karataolhrips jurassiens was unavailable for restudy, so we relied on published drawings for interpretation of wing venation, which is justified since the drawings agree well with photos of it.
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In each case, microscopic examination of various lung tissue specimens from all lobes of the lung was performed.
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Why I chose to surround myself with perfect specimens I do not know.
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For example, all specimens assigned to the Incertae familiae, discussed below, were treated as members of one highly variable species.
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As the fossils weather out of their matrix, they break into pieces and disperse; complete specimens are rare.
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Well, it turns out that he was right, as a 2003 reappraisal of the specimens by Tony Thulborn and Susan Turner showed that the bones could not belong to anything other than a dicynodont.
Archive 2006-05-01
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There's an unintentional air of elitism about the event, specialising as it does on unsullied perfect specimens.
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The occurrence of this specimen in nearshore beach deposits is somewhat unusual, as articulated or associated remains of Cretaceous sea turtles are more commonly encountered in lagoonal or offshore marine shale and chalk.
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Following each triaxial test it was noticed that the low strength specimens, grades C and D, generally sheared along one smooth inclined plane of failure.
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They are often found in Japanese temple precincts and are so tough that a few specimens survived the Hiroshima blast when all other vegetation was wiped out.
Times, Sunday Times
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A mature specimen will spread four metres or more and like other large flowered hybrids is ideal for summer flowers on walls, fences and pergolas, or for growing through a climbing rose or an earlier flowering tree like laburnum.
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A specimen from the replacement deposits of the Basin vein consists of several interlocking chalcopyrite crystals intergrown with clear quartz crystals.
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All portraiture is in its origin funerary – that is to say, the earliest known specimens of portraiture are found in tombs, and represent the dead.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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In half the specimens studied these lesions were found only after careful examination of numerous sections and staining with an anti-cytokeratin antibody.
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Rare complete carapaces of larger specimens are present and those of smaller instars are more common.
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However, a nasopharyngeal aspirate is the best specimen for detecting influenza viruses, and polymerase chain reaction is more sensitive than tissue culture when serology is the reference standard.
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The second Expedition failed to find gold, but brought back argentiferous galena in copper-stained quartz, and possibly in the ochraceous red veins seaming the Secondary gypsum; with silicates and carbonates of copper: select specimens of the latter yielding the enormous proportion of forty per cent.
The Land of Midian
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The first step included putting down a small "stripe" on the specimen as a basecoat before writing, using Paraloid B-72 a general-purpose thermoplastic acrylic resin, which is allowed to dry fully.
Archive 2009-04-01
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That new librarian is an odd specimen, isn't he?
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Morgan admitted four specimen counts of rape and two charges of assault causing actual bodily harm.
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An added attraction is models and dissected specimens of human body - liver, spleen, kidney, foetus and hip joints - all preserved in formaldehyde solution.
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A color-plate section on glossy paper contains forty-six photos of cut gems and mineral specimens and includes a color photo of the famous Hamlin varicolored tourmaline necklace.
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The aquarium has some interesting specimens of unusual tropical fish.
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However, the documented sighting of a plesiosaur, a water-bound creature, in 1923 made cryptozoologist believe that the specimen of these monsters existed in the lake at least 200 years ago.
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 618
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Cacodemon reproduction has not yet been observed, and youth specimens of cacodemon have never been found.
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The antral biopsy specimens were fixed in formalin and processed routinely.
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Suddenly she focused on one specimen in particular, a purple-topped tube with the label facing toward her.
Harvest
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This suggests an unconstrained loop shape, even in rather immature specimens of this form.
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We are able to dissolve the amber and get the specimens completely out," said Professor Jes Rust of Bonn University in Germany, who led the team.
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However, without such documentation, the defects of excessive / mistimed testing and wrong patient and specimen identification cannot be adequately addressed.
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Nor have they the fine American hand for devising new verbs; to maffick, to limehouse, to strafe and to wangle are their best specimens in twenty years, and all have an almost pathetic flatness.
Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation
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He notes carefully the distinctive qualities of particular specimens of goldcup oak, Douglas spruce, yellow pine, silver fir, and sequoia.
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Could the observed bundling be an artifact of specimen preparation for electron microscopy?
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The outbreak seems to be viral in origin supported in one area by specimen results.
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Museum specimens of Kern River rainbow trout collected in 1893 and 1904 have the same meristic characteristics as specimens of Little Kern River golden trout collected at the same time.
Trout and Salmon of North America
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Objective To compare the effect of collagen fiber staining between Sirius Red F 3B(SR) in saturated carbazotic acid staining and MASSON trichrome staining on rat kidney specimen.
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Indeed, the error in the latter was partly responsible for that in the former: for Stas, because of an unsuspected impurity in his silver had obtained less silver chloride from a specimen of the metal than really should have been produced by it.
Theodore W. Richards - Nobel Lecture
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This is the work of Johann Beringer, professor in the University of Wurzburg and private physician to the Prince-Bishop -- the treatise bearing the title Lithographiae Wirceburgensis Specimen Primum, "illustrated with the marvellous likenesses of two hundred figured or rather insectiform stones.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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The remaining 9 cases showed the coexistence of antral-type metaplasia, intestinal metaplasia, and dysplasia in the same specimen.
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There are, however, several other large species of Civettictis-like viverrids known from East Africa in the Plio-Pleistocene and this specimen could be related to one of them.
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The packed cell volume is determined by centrifuging the specimen in capillary tubes and measuring the height of the red cell column.
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None of the CF patients' undecalcified biopsy specimens in the present study demonstrated the osteoid parameters (excess osteoid surfaces and thick osteoid seams) characteristic of vitamin D deficiency osteomalacia.
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Larger specimens should be washed in water before mounting and then introduced to a small drop of the aqueous mountant before transfer to the slide for mounting.
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The specimens were cross-sectioned at a thickness of 5 [mu] m for staining with hematoxylin and eosin.
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There was, among the many, a hammock-shaped nest of the golden oriole, and igloo-shaped nest of some jungle specimen, a grass-at-all-angles nest of the ouzel, an eagle's nest spacious enough for Thor to hide in, and yes, a cuckoo's nest, which is to say the nest of any other bird the cuckoo finds handy.
Another Roadside Attraction
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Specimens were then prepared for morphometric analysis with dermestid beetles, which cleaned and disarticulated skeletal elements of the head.
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Heine’s mental history, but because they are a specimen of his power in that kind of dithyrambic writing which, in less masterly hands, easily becomes ridiculous:
The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete
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The special exhibit runs through 30 May and features cut and rough gem specimens as well as birthstones and synthetic stones.
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Laboratory protocol should include procedures that assure that the correct specimen is collected and that the specimen is correctly labeled.
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From April onwards, we potter about outside, spotting gaps where we might plant another beautiful specimen,
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The diagnosis of this genus is largely based on features of the cirri and arms, and is thus of only limited relevance to the present specimen.
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All of the missing birds had bright plumage, whereas female specimens left behind had brown feathers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Complete specimens of the dicynodont have been found in India and South Africa.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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There are some potential disadvantages of using biopsy specimens as opposed to epithelial cell preparations for metabolic studies.
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I find three more specimens of the giant clam, and the following day, two.
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Now the hunt for more soaring specimens of kapok, wild ficus, Dead Man's Tree, and gnarled kenip continues, as efforts to save the trees gain steam.
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Using the revolutionary process of plastination, the body specimens are preserved with special plastics that enable us to view the many organs and systems under our skin.
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It has subsequently been interpreted as a tubiform green alga and as a cyanobacterium, and Ordovician specimens that are evidently Halysis have been referred to the filamentous green alga Oedogonium Link, 1820.
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Live specimens still elude researchers.
Times, Sunday Times
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This Kobeh species differs from both the types of Mesophyllum lonense Stumm, 1937, and specimens referred to that species here, by having excentric and incomplete septal cones.
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Ananova - Penis museum in manhunt: The world's only penis museum has appealed for a human specimen.
Archive 2007-08-26
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As a first approximation of winter range, I plotted museum specimen records by month on maps of the Western Hemisphere.
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Researchers found 11 different specimens of these dwarf sauropods, both adults and juveniles, in Germany.
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Unusual specimens consisting of massive silver associated with uraninite and a variety of cobalt and nickel arsenides were available at one time from mines in the Great Bear Lake region, Northwest Territories.
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[Page 246] lent by the Field Museum, and later by carefully selected specimens of basketry from the Philippines.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
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downeasters," they were perfectly astounded by this second specimen of life in the wilderness; the men, being especially unused to bushfighting and the use of the rifle, were at a loss how to proceed.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
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I have seen fine specimens of the chiastolite (macle) which the Indians wore as amulets and which came from the Sierra Nevada de Merida.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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The genus Eoporpita shows extensive tentacles radiating from a central boss, which in some specimens appears chambered.
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A few large specimens were known in 1986, however, these were thought to represent gerontic individuals.
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Nobody likes them and they don't care not if some of the flyblown specimens that come sauntering up to you in Trafalgar Square are anything to go by.
Bruisers of the bird world keep Mike Tyson's fighting spirit cooped up | Martin Kelner
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Macroscopically, the largest mass in the lobectomy specimen was firm and white with cystic degeneration and stippling calcification.
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The buyers, as it requires a dizzying peppertree at thousand hills branson of duck to remain houses, had to exclude teens who would expend them residential roofing at the lowest specimen noticeable in headache for a gleaming of thei.
Wii-volution
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The third major category of error consists of specimen defects.
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The most important specimens of Lumachella marbles are the pair of very fine large columns of L. rosea on the ground-floor of the Schiarra Palace, the balustrade of the high altar of St. Andrea della Valle, two columns in the garden of the Corsini Palace of L. d 'Astracane, and a pair of large pillars which support one of the arches of the Vatican Library, formed of L. occhio di pavone.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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They are neatly arranged in tufts on a short footstalk, which becomes surrounded with young growths, all as clear in their markings as the parent plant, so that a well grown specimen of three years or even less becomes a beautiful object, whether it is on rockwork or in a cold frame.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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The freshly abraded specimen must then be washed in industrial spirit and Analar acetone.
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Every one was a double-figure specimen, and every one was a fresh-run sea trout.
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In all specimens, mitotic index was quantitated by counting the number of mitoses per twenty 100X oil immersion fields in areas of highest mitotic activity.
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One specimen appears to display a pathological condition on the fixed finger, which is strongly deflexed into a position unusual in the species, and has a bulbous swelling at the base of the finger.
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Postmortem specimens were collected from 40 corvids (9 American crows and 31 blue jays) that had died from no obvious cause.
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The sediment matrix of the specimen consists of crudely bedded very fine sandstone with Ophiomorpha burrows.
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They often produce matchboxes or pill bottles with fluff, splinters and other debris that they insist are specimens that they have caught.
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DNA extracted from specimens of extinct animals has already been used to show that the Mauritian dodo is a close cousin to the common pigeon.
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[Footnote: On investigating the calorescence produced by rays transmitted through glasses of various colours, it was found that in the case of certain specimens of blue glass, the platinum foil glowed with a pink or purplish light.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2
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In specimens of GC, CB, and LM, the AgNORs were located at terminal regions of the short arm of an SM pair, in which was observed a size heteromorphism between homologue chromosomes.
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A specimen of the practical nature of his retaliation occurred early in 1859.
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Our results showed that hypothermic storage resulted in a decrease of chondrocyte viability in condylar specimens up to 49% after 60 days.
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The present study attempted to isolate and cultivate RPE cells from evisceration specimens obtained from two cases with severe ocular trauma.
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The oral shields are large and arrow shaped but in some specimens the shield may be more rounded.
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The specimens cover a gamut from the best of their kind to the run-of-the-mill and tacky.
2009 August : Scrubbles.net
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During the 1970s and 80s emphasis in basal whale research began to shift from Africa to Asia, at first because Sahni & Mishra (1972) described primitive whale remains discovered in India, and later as West (1980) figured and identified lower jaw specimens from Pakistan.
Archive 2006-02-01
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This showy snailfish lacks the purple stripes displayed by other specimens.
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Over 160 years in the making, Trebah now contains glades of subtropical ferns, towering bamboo and magnificent specimen trees, as well as rhododendrons and magnolias in spring.
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Since urine from the first bladder drainage is old urine, and urine from the second drainage represents urine that may have emptied from the kidneys, the third and most recent urine specimen is usually the most reliable for analysis.
LUTO — Grahl
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No doubt Dr. Hooker collected the Kerguelen moth, for I remember he told me of the case when I suggested in the "Origin," the explanation of the coleoptera of Madeira being apterous; but he did not know what had become of the specimens.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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It took me a second to home in on that perfect specimen of manly-buffness.
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Patients underwent gastric endoscopy with biopsy specimens taken for determination of the histological endocrine cell status.
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The nurse used sterile cotton wool swabs to obtain swab specimens of the wound.
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All around the two girls grew large specimens of fungi: mushrooms nearly as tall as them grew from the ground, and toadstools and bracken protruded from the rocky walls in clumps.
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Specimen half-standard fruit trees can be grown as features in the lawn or borders, and mini upright cordons can be grown individually, in small plantations in the borders or in pots for the patio.
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Sir Thomas Browne in his "Pseudo-doxia Epidemica" [162: 2] remarked that many specimens of alleged unicorn's horn, preserved in England, were in fact portions of teeth of the Arctic walrus, known as the morse or sea-horse.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
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The specimens were not permanently marked, but instead bore paper tags attached with string loops.
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Now, breathing in the chill river spray, I wonder if the taxidermal specimen might be enough.
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Results: In this study, the ophthalmic, clinoid segment of contralateral ICA and the contralateral superior hypophyseal artery were successfully exposed in all specimens (15 specimens, 30 sides).
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In 1799 a strange Australian specimen, ‘a small amphibious animal of the mole kind,’ arrived at the Royal Society of London.
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There are hedges of pittosporum, arbors veiled by passion-flowers, and two of that most beautiful of all living trees, the _araucaria_, or Norfolk Island pine, -- one specimen being some eighty feet high, and said to be the tallest north of the equator.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
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Methods Specimens of bone marrow in these patients were analyzed by cytomorphology, cytogenetics and molecular biology.
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Specimens were then prepared for morphometric analysis with dermestid beetles, which cleaned and disarticulated skeletal elements of the head.
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All surgical specimens were fixed in formalin and examined with hematoxylin-eosin stain.
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[Page 300] if it were a specimen of some 'tesselated pavement' fit for a museum, and not a pebble is to be found in its natural state.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Again, branchiae break off when the animal is fixed unless care is taken to relax the specimen first.
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The richest and most beautiful specimen is the flabellum of the thirteenth century in the Abbey of Kremsmünster in Upper Austria.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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These hills afford neither shrubs nor flowers, but furnish the finest specimens of millepore in the world; and the water courses are full of fossil productions.
Domestic Manners of the Americans
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There were several specimens in it that I can still recall acutely, one of which was spodumene collected from a New England pegmatite.
About.com Geology
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I have been favoured by Miss Lawrence with one of these letters as a specimen: ” 'T. LAWRENCIO, Medico, S.' NOVUM frigus, nova tussis, nova spirandi difficultas, novam sanguinis missionem suadent, quam tamen te inconsulto nolim fieri.
Life Of Johnson
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They are those rare specimens whose loyalty is uncontrived and non-cynical.
Times, Sunday Times
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Peninsula and the Philippines, and our explorers have failed to obtain any specimens of the "tailed" people in whose existence many of the
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo
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Good specimens of sperrylite with apophyllite, prehnite, thaumasite, and calcite are reported.
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Having removed some specimens for analysis, the team took care to reseal the entrance with boulders, thus erasing all evidence of the discovery and restoring the burial place to its original seclusion.
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The next day he rose early, and while the rest of his suite were sleeping went out unattended, returning before breakfast was over with a tally-card showing a killing of thirteen dinosaurs, twenty-seven megatheriums, and about six tons of chlamy-dophori, not to mention a mammoth jack-rabbit that some idiot had told him was the only specimen in the world of the monodelphian mollycoddle.
The Autobiography of Methuselah
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Owen was soon to become an assistant in cataloging the Hunterian Collection of thirteen thousand human and animal anatomical specimens, which had been purchased by the Crown after the death of its owner, the famous surgeon John Hunter.
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You can buy 10 plugs for £3 from a wholesaler and grow them on, or spend £4.50 and get a good single specimen of a herbaceous perennial that will be really doing its stuff at this time of year.
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donjon" of great antiquity, crenelated, with towers at each corner and the whole construction forming an admirable specimen of Hispano-Flemish architecture.
Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
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The specimens were examined microscopically and cultured for bacteria, mycobacteria, and fungi.
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Many other traditionary genealogies of chiefs might be given, but let the above suffice as a specimen of the rest.
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The age and growth parameters of red bandfish were determined from the specimens collected in Ýzmir Bay between January 1996 and February 1997.
