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