specimen
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ə noun
1.
a part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number; a typical animal, plant, mineral, part, etc.
2.
(in medicine, microbiology, etc.) a sample of a substance or material for examination or study: a urine specimen; a tissue specimen.
3.
a particular or peculiar kind of person.
Origin:
1600–10; < Latin: mark, example, indication, sign, equivalent to speci-, stem of specere to look, regard + -men noun suffix denoting result or means
1600–10; < Latin: mark, example, indication, sign, equivalent to speci-, stem of specere to look, regard + -men noun suffix denoting result or means
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| —n | |
| 1. | a. an individual, object, or part regarded as typical of the group or class to which it belongs |
| b. (as modifier): a specimen signature; a specimen page | |
| 2. | med a sample of tissue, blood, urine, etc, taken for diagnostic examination or evaluation |
| 3. | the whole or a part of an organism, plant, rock, etc, collected and preserved as an example of its class, species, etc |
| 4. | informal, derogatory often a person |
| [C17: from Latin: mark, evidence, proof, from specere to look at] | |
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Word Origin & History
specimen
1619, "pattern, model," from L. specimen "indication, mark, example, sign, evidence," from specere "to look at" (see scope (1)). Meaning "single thing regarded as typical of its kind" first recorded 1654.
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Medical Dictionary
specimen spec·i·men (spěs'ə-mən)
n.
A sample, as of tissue, blood, or urine, used for analysis and diagnosis.
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Example sentences
For information on collecting a urine sample, see clean catch urine specimen.
For information on how to obtain the sample, see clean catch urine specimen.
The new squid could be an adult member of the species but researchers can't say for certain until they have caught a specimen.
In several portions of the specimen two or three generations of cells are seen enclosed in a parent cell wall.
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