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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. Spore print - Wikipedia

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    A printable chart to make a spore print and start identification. The spore print is the powdery deposit obtained by allowing spores of a fungal fruit body to fall onto a surface underneath. It is an important diagnostic character in most handbooks for identifying mushrooms. It shows the colour of the mushroom spores if viewed en masse.

  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. 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. Carpuject - Wikipedia

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    The carpuject is a syringe device for the administration of injectable fluid medication. It was patented by the Sterling Drug Company , which became the Sterling Winthrop , after World War II. It is designed with a luer-lock device to accept a sterile hypodermic needle or to be linked directly to intravenous tubing line.

  7. Letitia Mumford Geer - Wikipedia

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    According to Geer's patent, "In a hand-syringe the combination of a cylinder, a piston and an operating-rod which is bent upon itself to form a smooth and rigid arm terminating in a handle, which, in its extreme positions, is located within reach of the fingers of the hand which holds the cylinder, thus permitting one hand to hold and operate ...

  8. Instruments used in microbiology - Wikipedia

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    Pre-sterilized disposable syringe / auto-destruct syringes: specimen collection Roux culture bottle: Bottle designed to use laying flat, useful for growing mass cultures and single or monolayer cultures. Serological test slides like those for ASO, VDRL, rheumatoid factor: provide links: Specimen Dish: used to hold specimen or samples Sterile loops

  9. Safety syringe - Wikipedia

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    Auto Disable (AD) syringes are designed as a single use syringe, with an internal mechanism blocking the barrel once depressed so it cannot be depressed again. The other type of syringe with a re-use prevention feature is the breaking plunger syringe. An internal mechanism cracks the syringe when the plunger is fully depressed to prevent ...