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Specimen Handling

Medical Definition:	Procedures for collecting, preserving, and transporting of specimens sufficiently stable to provide accurate and precise results suitable for clinical interpretation.
Guide Notes:	includes "collection"

Specimen Handling Categories.

	Dissection - The separation and isolation of tissues for surgical purposes, or for the analysis or study of their structures.
	Preservation, Biological
	Punctures - Incision of tissues for injection of medication or for other diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Punctures of the skin, for example may be used for diagnostic drainage; of blood vessels for diagnostic imaging procedures.
	Tissue Harvesting - The removal of organs or tissue for reuse, for example, for transplantation.

Specimen Handling Medical Definitions and Terms

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