See Also: Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Sample(money)
Sample(medicine)
sample(1)(dictionary)
sample(2)(dictionary)
Mean of the sample(money)
random sample(medicine)
probability sample(medicine)
end-tidal sample(medicine)
sample, random(medicine)

Sample (medicine)


sample


1. A specimen of a whole entity small enough to involve no threat or damage to the whole; an aliquot.

2. A selected subset of a population; a sample may be random or nonrandom (haphazard); representative or nonrepresentative.

Origin: M.E. Ensample, fr. L. Exemplum, example