Both Uses of
specimen
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
- German priest of the Society of Jesus, reclined in his underwear on a cot on the top floor of his order's three-storey mission house, reading a Jesuit magazine, Stimmen der Zeit; Dr Terufumi Sasaki, a young member of the surgical staff of the city's large, modern Red Cross Hospital, walked along one of the hospital corridors with a blood specimen for a Wassermann test in his hand; and the Reverend Mr Kiyoshi Tanimoto, pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, paused at the door of a rich man's house in Koi, the city's western suburb, and prepared to unload a handcart full of things he had evacuated from town in fear of the massive B-29 raid which everyone expected Hiroshima to suffer.†
Chpt 1specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- With the blood specimen in his left hand, walking in a kind of distraction he had felt all morning, probably because of the dream and his rest— less night, he started along the main corridor on his way towards the stairs.†
Chpt 1 *
Definition:
an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes