What's the difference between individual and specimen?

Individual


Definition:

  • (a.) Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.
  • (n.) A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.
  • (n.) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.
  • (n.) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
  • (2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
  • (3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (4) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
  • (5) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (6) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (7) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
  • (8) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (9) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
  • (10) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (11) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
  • (12) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
  • (13) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (14) Microelectrodes were used to measure the oxygen tension (PO2) profile within individual spheroids at different stages of growth.
  • (15) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (16) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
  • (17) These data, then, indicate that the ability to produce C3NeF autoantibody is present from the time of birth in normal individuals.
  • (18) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
  • (19) Patients served as their individual control based on observations of at least 1 year before the study.
  • (20) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.

Specimen


Definition:

  • (n.) A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
  • (2) The fluoride treated specimens released more fluoride than the nontreated ones.
  • (3) Sperm specimens were obtained from 13 men participating in our in vitro fertilization program.
  • (4) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
  • (5) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
  • (6) Flow cytometric DNA analysis was performed on both fresh and on paraffin embedded samples obtained by gastroscopic biopsies in 5 patients with histologically normal gastric mucosa (20 specimens) and by radical gastrectomies in 9 cases of human gastric cancer (36 specimens).
  • (7) Immunofluorescent staining for HLA-DR showed dermal positivity in 12 of 13 involved- and 9 of 13 uninvolved-skin biopsy specimens from scleroderma patients, compared with only 1 of 10 controls.
  • (8) A specimen of a very early ovum, 4 to 6 days old, shown in the luminal form of imbedding before any hemorrhage has taken place, confirms that the luminal form of imbedding does occur.
  • (9) The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test (screening test) for the detection of antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined by using 128 serum specimens and quaternary aminoethyl (QAE)-Sephadex A50 column chromatography to separate IgM from IgG class antibodies.
  • (10) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
  • (11) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
  • (12) In the second comparison, HSV was isolated from 225 of 1,026 (21.9%) specimens and duplicate human foreskin fibroblast cell wells stained at 24 and 72 h were PAP positive in 241 of 1,026 (23.5%).
  • (13) However, a highly significant upward shift of the proliferating cell compartment was observed in the cancer group, resulting in a specific modification of the [3H]TDR labeling pattern in 6 of 17 specimens.
  • (14) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
  • (15) Residual cancer was found in the radical prostatectomy specimen in 11 of the 29 stage-A1 patients (38%) and in 66 of the 86 stage-A2 patients (77%).
  • (16) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
  • (17) One-half of the specimens were treated with citric acid, pH 1, for 3 minutes, while the remainder served as untreated control specimens.
  • (18) It was found to be convenient for routine laboratory use and increased the yield of positive plate cultures in specimens without antibiotics from 53 to 75% (P less than 0.01) and in specimens containing antibiotics from 24 to 38% (P less than 0.05).
  • (19) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
  • (20) Two-thirds of the specimens tested gave positive results.