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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. Syringe driver - Wikipedia

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    A syringe pump for laboratory use. World Precision Instruments (WPI) SP120PZ. A syringe driver, also known as a syringe pump, is a small infusion pump, used to gradually administer small amounts of fluid (with or without medication) to a patient or for use in chemical and biomedical research. Some syringe drivers can both infuse and withdraw ...

  4. Hypodermic needle - Wikipedia

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    A hypodermic syringe has the ability to retain liquid and blood in it up to years after the last use and a great deal of caution should be taken to use a new syringe every time. The hypodermic needle also serves an important role in research environments where sterile conditions are required.

  5. Instruments used in general medicine - Wikipedia

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    Hypodermic needle / Syringe: for injections and aspiration of blood or fluid from the body Infection control equipment: as in gloves, gowns, bonnets, shoe covers, face shields, goggles, and surgical masks for preventing nosocomial or healthcare-associated infection: Instrument sterilizer: to sterilize instruments in absence of an autoclave ...

  6. Safety syringe - Wikipedia

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    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 safety syringes or equivalents has been introduced in many nations since needlestick injuries and re-use prevention became the focus of governments and safety bodies.

  7. 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.

  8. Instruments used in anesthesiology - Wikipedia

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    Syringe: to inject medications Mucus sucker: to aspirate any fluid specially mucus from the respiratory passage Variable performance devices: Fixed performance devices: Peripheral Nerve Stimulator: to locate the nerve during regional anesthesia TOF Monitor: to decide the repeat / reverse the anesthesia effect

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

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    for posterior rhinoscopy (seeing the inner parts of the nose like the choanae) Bronchoscope: hollow tube to see within the respiratory tract without obstructing respiration: Oesophagoscope: hollow tube to see within the oesophagus: Laryngoscope: used in direct laryngoscopy; video link: Jobson Horne's probe with ring curette: to access or clean ...