Sentence examples for specimen is usually from inspiring English sources
The specimen is usually mounted on a glass slide.
The specimen is usually stained and observed while illuminated; useful for observation of the gross morphological features of bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa.
Several modifications of light microscopy are available, such as: bright field The specimen is usually stained and observed while illuminated; useful for observation of the gross morphological features of bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa.
In practice, the name of the end-member that makes up the largest percentage of any given specimen is usually applied e.g., a garnet with the composition Al45Py25Sp15Gr9An6 would be called almandine.
Additionally, the specimen is usually placed on a linear support (steel rod) fixed to the lower plate of the testing machine.
The specimen is usually clamped into manual or pneumatic grips using sandpaper and/or cyanoacrylate glues to limit risk of slippage.
In Finnish archaeology, age determination of specimens is usually based on archaeological context.
Immunostaining of the FNA specimens is usually needed to diagnose most of these neoplasms and the cytologists should probably be alerted to the differential diagnosis so that they can process the specimens accordingly.
However, the detection of these exfoliated cancer cells by routine cytopathological examination is very difficult because the number of abnormal cells in the specimens is usually very low compared to the number of normal cells.
As histopathologic analysis of neck dissection specimens is usually performed on several 3 4 mm sections from each lymph node, and as micrometastases represent tumour deposits measuring less than 2 mm in diameter, they can be easily missed on routine light microscopy (Hermanek et al, 1999; Genden et al, 2003).
The normal breast-like group of primary specimens is usually composed of actual normal breast samples and a small number of primary tumors [ 9, 38], the latter of which we believe show the high expression of true normal tissue genes due to significant normal breast contamination [ 9].
