Cath spec is short for catheter specimen, a urine specimen collected by inserting a tube through the urethra into the bladder.
In gynecology, spec is short for speculum.
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A "cath spec" is a catheterized urine specimen. Most urine specimens are voided specimens when the patient attempt to collect the urine while voiding. The risk of contaminating a voided specimen, with skin bacteria, is high even when the patient is careful. Therefore, a catheterized urine specimen is considered a reliable urine sample.
Spec is actually an abbreviation. SPEC stands for Single-Photon-Emission-Computed-Tomography. It has something to do with physics.
Spec is short for specific or specifications
The root spec means: look or too see
1. A document (article or story) that is submitted without a contract or agreement in place. A writer writes and submits "on spec" or "on speculation" in hopes that the magazine will publish it (in the case of an article) or that the TV/movie studio will film it (in the case of a script.) 2. In general, "spec" is an abbreviation for "Specification". If someone asks for the spec on a bolt, he is asking what are the specifications of a bolt, which would include the material, the diameter, the thread size, the load it can hold.
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