Sentence examples for specimen is representative from inspiring English sources
The presence of a solar lentigo, pigmented actinic keratosis, or reticulated seborrheic keratosis could mislead the pathologist and clinician to the erroneous conclusion that the incisional specimen is representative of the whole, and that no lentigo maligna is present.
The tested specimen is representative of a wall in a four storey building with one underground floor, designed for moderate seismic actions (PGA=0.20 g) adopting the European Seismic Code (Eurocode 8, EC8).
If this coprolite specimen is representative of the time period, then the reduction in these genes over time may reflect that modern sanitation in food or water supplies have weakened the defenses of gut bacteria, he says.
The reason for such a result is probably the homogeneity of most ultrasound-detected lesions (a small specimen is representative of the whole lesion) and the low frequency of borderline results (such as atypical ductal hyperplasia and others, which are usually associated with microcalcifications and are not seen on ultrasound).
Another contributing factor is whether the surgical specimen is representative of the overall lesion.
The one low-grade glioma included in our study that was diagnosed based on stereotactic biopsy had a homogeneous appearance both on conventional MRI and functional MRI and lacked focal malignant transformation at histology, assuming that the specimen was representative.
The shell specimens are representative of typical load-bearing CFRPs in modern civil aviation.
The specimens were representative of the kind of fibre misalignment that can occur in components at ply drops and resin rich areas.
The specimens were representative of a typical secondary beam used in composite flooring systems and were designed in accordance with Australian guidelines with a degree of shear connection equal to 0.5.
All tonsil specimens were representative for DNA extraction.
An assumption made in interpreting the fossil record is that the specimens are representative of the sample population.
