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speculum

[spek-yuh-luhm] / ˈspɛk yə ləm /


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Less than a quarter of people surveyed said they knew they could request a smaller speculum and only 12% said they knew they could ask for a double appointment.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2025

Then, a speculum is used to identify the cervix.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2024

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

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

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022

I have already remarked on the curious fact that the simple artifice of gazing into a speculum should prove the avenue to phenomena of such various types.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)




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