speculum
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Ms Hewitt, from Cambridgeshire, said she always asked for a smaller speculum to be used and for a double appointment to "break the ice" with the nurse.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2025
Finally, the doctor trims the strings and removes the speculum.
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2024
They’ve noted that the type of speculum he claimed to invent had long been in use by others and that some of procedures he utilized were not really his, or were dangerous.
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2021
In recent years, there have been petitions to rename the instrument commonly known as the Sims vaginal speculum, a tool used daily by obstetricians and gynecologists to observe the cervix.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2021
Female smaller; head and crest reddish brown; breast mottled with ash and white; upper plumage and flanks deep ash-colour; speculum with one black bar; bill and feet dull orange; irides brown.
From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.
