All 9 Uses
specimen
in
Cutting for Stone
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- The male poorhouse specimen of his first-year anatomy class had been ancient and shriveled with ghostly muscles and tendons, such being the common tender of Edinburgh anatomy theaters.†
Part 1specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- What a specimen, Hema thought as she studied him.†
Part 1
- AT LONG LAST he looked up, seeing as if for the first time the green tile going halfway up the wall, the swinging green door to the autoclave room, the glass instrument case, the bloody uterus with its necklace of hemostats lying in the green towel, the blue-black placenta right next to it on the specimen table, and the jade-colored ground-glass windows through which sunlight filtered.†
Part 1
- "I imagine he'll write for his books and specimens once he is settled," Matron said.†
Part 2 *specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- He kept sending back reports that my specimens were inadequate: though he thought he saw some uroepithelial tissue, he couldn't be certain it was the vas.†
Part 3
- I can't spend enough time with each specimen.†
Part 4specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- Have you read this specimen yet?†
Part 4
- Have you read that specimen?†
Part 4
- I studied my father as I might study some specimen set before me: I saw the smile that struggled for purchase on his face and failed, and then I saw the haunted and hunted look that came in its wake.†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(specimen) an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)