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
Finally, the doctor trims the strings and removes the speculum.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2024
During a cervical cancer test, a doctor will use a speculum to open the vagina and insert a small brush or spatula to scrape cell samples from the cervix at the entrance to the uterus.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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
Sometimes the figures seem clearly defined within the crystal and limited thereby; sometimes all perception of the crystal or other speculum disappears, and the scryer seems clairvoyantly introduced into some group of life-sized figures.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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 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
So he gave up his "glass works"; and proceeded to think of reflexion from metal specula.
From Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge
In Spanish, generos, merchandise.267.Many derivatives might have been added, such as specimen, spectator, le spectacle, specialité, spectrum, spectacles, specious, specula, &c.268.Benloew,
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
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 two blue-bills can be told from the female ring-neck by their white speculums.
From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Harry Thom Payne
