Sentence examples for specimens have led from inspiring English sources

He considers books like "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" to be "rubbish"; his studies of dead specimens have led him to believe that the longest recorded measurement of a giant squid — fifty-seven feet — is apocryphal.

Beached marine specimens have led to the discovery of new whale species, insights into fish parasitology, and interesting finds about the pooping habits of turtles.

6, 7 Discrepancies between karyotypes derived from chorionic villus samples (CVS) and those derived from amniotic fluid specimens have led to the identification of the parental origin of the chromosomes involved in the mosaicism and has uncovered UPD in some cases.

Characterization of fatigue crack initiation sites in laboratory scale fatigue specimens has led to the identification of characteristic initiation sites and microstructural arrangements.

The advent of high-throughput techniques for genetic and epigenetic characterization of tumor specimens has led to an exponential increase in our understanding of molecular events underlying the process of carcinogenesis.

The lack of a reliable tool to swiftly diagnose both conventional and intra-operative surgical specimens has led to a considerable amount of interest in the application of a spectroscopic approach.

However, the poor condition of the specimen has led some to speculate that it is distorted and in fact represents simply a cranium of A. afarensis (White 2003).

Re-examination of the pathological specimens have lead to the adjustment of the original Hodgkin's disease diagnosis to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in some 10% or more of the cases (Travis et al, 1991; Martinsson et al, 1992; Abrahamsen et al, 1997; Kumar et al, 1997; Jaffe et al, 2001).

If the solution had been clear, as for example saline or buffered saline, these five specimens would have led to faulty measurements.

In addition, the inclusion criteria of willingness to provide a blood specimen may have led to potential under participation in the survey thus increasing selection bias.

The examination of three or more specimens per child would most certainly have led to even higher estimates of total prevalence but we doubt that it would have changed the other two estimates considerably.