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Brogaine — "Because no one wants to be the bald guy in the frat," this version of Rogaine is designed for male college students suffering from premature hair loss caused by stress-causing factors of college life (e.g. "nerds", "midterms", worrying their frat dog is an alcoholic, chanting "the n-word" in a viral video).
Sharps – like needles, syringes, lancets and other devices used at home to treat diabetes, arthritis, cancer, and other diseases – should be immediately disposed of after use. Sharps waste is a form of biomedical waste composed of used "sharps", which includes any device or object used to puncture or lacerate the skin.
A wall-mounted sharps container. A needle remover is a device used to physically remove a needle from a syringe.In developing countries, there is still a need for improvements in needle safety in hospital settings as most of the needle removal processes are done manually and under severe risk of hazard from needles puncturing skin risking infection.
Intense pulsed light (IPL) is a technology used by cosmetic and medical practitioners to perform various skin treatments for aesthetic and therapeutic purposes, including hair removal, photorejuvenation (e.g. the treatment of skin pigmentation, sun damage, and thread veins) as well as to alleviate dermatologic diseases such as acne.
Cauterization (or cauterisation, or cautery) is a medical practice or technique of burning a part of a body to remove or close off a part of it. It destroys some tissue in an attempt to mitigate bleeding and damage, remove an undesired growth, or minimize other potential medical harm, such as infections when antibiotics are unavailable.
used in direct laryngoscopy; video link: Jobson Horne's probe with ring curette: to access or clean the external ear: Tuning forks: for various clinical tests of hearing loss; vibration sense test Pritchard's politzerization apparatus: video link: Aural/Ear syringe: used to flush out anything like ear wax or foreign bodies from the external ear
Blade extracted from disposable self retracting blood lancet with ruler for scale. A blood lancet, or simply lancet, is a small medical implement used for capillary blood sampling. A blood lancet, sometimes called a lance, is similar to a scalpel style lancet, but with a double-edged blade and a pointed end. It can even be a specialized type of ...
The name is most likely derived from phlebotome: phlebos, Greek for blood vessel and tome, meaning to cut. [2] These instruments are the progression from the early use of fish teeth, sharpened stones, and thorns used to penetrate blood vessels. The earliest known examples are made of bronze with a myrtle-leaf shape to the blade.