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Abstract

An automatic clinical analysis apparatus for liquid samples includes a stepwise rotatable circular plate which carries a plurality of reaction tubes on the periphery thereof; and at least one, and preferably several, reagent supply stations arranged at mutually different locations around said plate. The stations are operative to supply reagent liquid to the reaction tubes carried by said plate; a sample supply station is operative to supply sample liquid to said tubes carried by said plate; and a measuring station in which liquid can be withdrawn from said tubes by suction and analytically measured. The sample supply station is able to supply sample liquid selectively from any one of a large number of sample containers to that reaction tube in the plate which has been advanced to a given position. Each reagent supply station is able to supply any one of a plurality of mutually different reagent liquids to any one of two different reaction tubes in said rotary plate located at different given positions. The rotary plate may be arranged to move each reaction tube through a number of revolutions prior to withdrawing liquid therefrom at the measuring station. In this way the sample liquid can be supplied selectively at different moments in time prior to carrying out the measuring process, and several different reagent liquids, or combinations thereof, can be selectively supplied to the sample at different, selected moments in time, prior to carrying out said measuring process.

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