speculum
Example Sentences
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Quinn ultimately accepted the DNA recovered from the vest top was his - although he disputed the finding from the medical speculum.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
When Noa Fleischacker had her first pap smear, she was struck by an unbearable, knife-like pain as soon as the speculum went in.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2025
An exam confirmed that she needed two wolf teeth extracted and the sharp edges of some molars ground down, procedures that required propping her jaws open with a speculum.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023
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
Brougham's attack was compared to the concave speculum, in which every ray was concentrated with focal intensity, and poured in a burning stream upon his shrinking victim.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
