Set of one or more devices, including any reagent and supply, assembled and adapted to give information used to generate examined values from a nominal property value set.
Examples: - Selective culture medium for the identification of \(Candida\ albicans\) in a biological fluid.
- Chromatograph and mass spectrometer for the identification of mass/charge ratios of molecules.
- Instrument used for running a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) followed by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) for the identification of a genotype.
Note: A human eye may be an essential element of an examining system.
Source:
PAC, 2018, 90, 913. 'Vocabulary on nominal property, examination, and related concepts for clinical laboratory sciences (IFCC-IUPAC Recommendations 2017)' on page 918 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2011-0613)