Sentence examples for specimens are either from inspiring English sources

Specimens had to be near complete and undistorted in lateral view to be of use in digital surface morphometry, and, accordingly, no skull of Machairodus aphanistus was included in such analyses, because all known specimens are either highly incomplete or have suffered at least some post-mortem distortion.

The heads on all previous tenontosaur specimens were either missing or crushed and fragmented.

Specimens were either restrained, using a stainless steel block, or unrestrained.

The remaining cytologic specimens were either low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions or were normal.

The lengths of the beam-column specimens were either 500 or 1000 mm.

Specimens were either cured at room temperature or hydro-thermally treated at 75 °C for five hours.

Specimens were either stained with hematoxylin and eosin or used for immunohistochemical reaction with anti-NGF antibody.

Specimens were either 'pristine' or contained artificial delaminations in the form of strips of release film to represent manufacturing defects.

All concrete specimens were either water cured or atmosphere (Air curing) cured with relative humidity of 60% and 20 °C for 28 days.

Twelve specimens were either culture and/or DFA positive for viruses other than influenza, but negative by the OIA assay, suggesting that there was no cross reactivity of the OIA assay with the other virus types recovered in this study.

Tissue specimens were either crushed frozen or homogenized directly for 2×2 minutes in 750 µl TRIzol using a Tissuelyzer (Qiagen.com).