Widely distributed in environment and usually a contaminant in laboratory specimens.

He stood over her, watching her behavior with the kind of total curiosity a scientist exhibits toward a laboratory specimen.

It will help you make the inevitable transition from living legend to laboratory specimen.

It is a laboratory specimen of an arrested culture.

In 1977 a similar carrier pigeon service was set up for the transport of laboratory specimens between two English hospitals.

She tried to imagine what it might be like to be a laboratory specimen, with an unwanted new life growing inside her.

Their design depends on the material properties measured on much smaller laboratory specimens.

It was totally stagnant-a laboratory specimen of an arrest-ed culture.

As part of the worldwide hunt for such microbes, the health agency asked the 39 institutions to send laboratory specimens from any cases reported.

While it would be helpful to have laboratory specimens on which to experiment, such are not available.