speculum

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Bianca says she asked the nurse to use a smaller speculum after reading about it online.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2025

Finally, the doctor trims the strings and removes the speculum.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2024

I was in the middle of examining a patient when I dropped my speculum.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022

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

And a modern improvement first used by Draper is a small rectangular prism in place of the little plane speculum, effecting a saving of five to ten per cent of the light.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck