speculum
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To insert an IUD, a clinician opens the vagina using a speculum and grips the cervix with a type of forceps, which can cause a sudden, sharp pain.
From Slate ● Jun. 7, 2026
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
Above brown, bend of wing and speculum white; beneath white, breast and flanks brownish; bill dark; feet horn-colour.
From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
Adding “Web MD” brought back the same results, albeit staged in doctors’ offices, with lab coats and specula as props.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019
The firm also apparently compounded its problems through ill-advised specula tion in the market for Government securities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Having purchased the apparatus of a Quaker optician, he set about the manufacture of specula with a zeal which seemed to anticipate the wonders they were to disclose to him.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
Lastly he took up the fourth, and read half to himself— “‘The method practised by Monsieur Foucault in silvering the surfaces of glass specula.’
From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn
I know of a gentleman who made a hundred of these specula with his own hands.
From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn
Many said there had been shortages of medical equipment such as speculums, emergency adrenaline, ECG patches, forceps and gloves due to "constantly unpaid invoices", which they claimed had resulted in some appointments being cancelled.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025
Research commissioned by the charity suggests most women do not know they can make the test easier by asking for longer appointments, smaller speculums, or move to more comfortable positions.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2025
BBC Wales has also been told there have been difficulties obtaining supplies like wound packs and speculums, and that clinics had been cancelled, causing patient backlogs.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
She also practiced ultrasound techniques and used speculums, swabs and local anesthetic to prepare patients.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2022
The colored wing patches of these birds lack the brilliance of the speculums of puddle ducks.
From Ducks at a Distance A Waterfowl Identification Guide by Robert W. Hines
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