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  2. Syringe - Wikipedia

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    A syringe is a simple reciprocating pump consisting of a plunger (though in modern syringes, it is actually a piston) that fits tightly within a cylindrical tube called a barrel. The plunger can be linearly pulled and pushed along the inside of the tube, allowing the syringe to take in and expel liquid or gas through a discharge orifice at the ...

  3. List of instruments used in otorhinolaryngology, head and ...

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    to focus light into the cavity under inspection; mirror is concave and is used with a Chiron lamp to produce a parallel beam of light; doctor views through the hole (average diameter of mirror is 3 & 1/2" & that of hole is 1/4") Head mounted lights with head band: to focus light into the cavity under inspection Chiron lamp: source of light Katz ...

  4. Safety syringe - Wikipedia

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    The needle on a safety syringe can be detachable or permanently attached. On some models, a sheath is placed over the needle, whereas in others the needle retracts into the barrel. Safety needles [1] serve the same functions as safety syringes, but the protective mechanism is a part of the needle rather than the syringe. Legislation requiring ...

  5. Luer taper - Wikipedia

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    A syringe with a male luer lock fitting, and a needle with female luer lock fitting (purple) which screws into it. The Luer taper is a standardized system of small-scale fluid fittings used for making leak-free connections between a male-taper fitting and its mating female part on medical and laboratory instruments, including hypodermic syringe tips and needles or stopcocks and needles.

  6. List of instruments used in ophthalmology - Wikipedia

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    small curved canula the size of a syringe needle used to introduce fluids or drugs into the nasolacrimal passage to test its patency or during surgery (dacrocystography, dacrocystectomy, dacryocystorhinostomy(DCR), etc. Lang's lacrimal dissector with scoop: for blunt dissections and cleaning during operations like dacryocystorhinostomy: Rougine

  7. Injector pen - Wikipedia

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    Injector pens remove some of the complications of syringes by allowing the pen to be "pushed" against the skin at a 90-degree angle (removing the need to inject at a proper angle as is the case with syringes), as well as by replacing a long, thin plunger of a syringe with a simple button which is depressed and held to inject the dose. [2]

  8. Instruments used in microbiology - Wikipedia

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    Tuberculin syringe: as a normal syringe or to perform Mantoux test: ULT freezer: to freeze and storage of specimens Universal container: a cylindrical small glass bottle with a screw cap used as a culture medium holder Vaccine bath: used to heat vaccine containing medium gently to around 45-55 degrees Celsius during vaccine production Vacuum pump

  9. Instruments used in general medicine - Wikipedia

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    to record the electrical activity of the heart over a period of time [1] Enema equipment: to inject fluid into the lower bowel for several purposes, most frequently for relieving constipation: Endoscope: to look inside the gastrointestinal tract, used mainly in surgery or by surgical consultants External cardioverter / Defibrillator