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
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
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
Under the patronage of King George, he advanced to telescopes of still greater size, his largest being no less than forty feet in length, with a speculum of four feet in diameter.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
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
He had ground two hundred specula before he could get one perfect.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
His ardent desire to measure and gauge the stupendous array of worlds which his specula revealed to him, made him continually intent upon adding to their "space-penetrating power" by increasing their light-gathering surface.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
He studied science when he could, and hired a telescope, until he learnt to make his own specula and telescopes.
From History of Astronomy by George Forbes
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
Shut our eyes against them, and we are merely nicely- constructed speculums, which reflect the beauties of nature, but enjoy none.'
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
