By contrast, 19 of the 32 survivors of the standard technique, or 59%, were left badly impaired.

Surgeons, who said there was 'no standard technique' for splitting a liver, had a long debate about whether to perform it at all.

This method became the worlds first standard technique for teaching jazz and musical theater dance.

Since his time this has been standard technique for keyboard instruments.

This has become a standard technique in developmental biology.