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NOUN
- a mirror (especially one made of polished metal) for use in an optical instrument
- a medical instrument for dilating a bodily passage or cavity in order to examine the interior
How To Use speculum In A Sentence
- A specially designed speculum is used to help direct the injection into the G-spot, with effects lasting around four months. G Marks The Spot
- The surgeon uses a wire speculum to retract the eyelids to expose the eyeball.
- In 1585 Fabricius de Hilden invented the speculum auris. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885
- For instance, doctors may need to use a handheld imaging device known as a Doppler rather than a stethoscope to measure heart rate in obese patients, and they may need to use a longer speculum for gynecological exams. Have Americans Literally Outgrown Heath Care?
- Specimens collected during invasive speculum examination have long been necessary for the conventional laboratory diagnosis of vaginal discharge diseases.
- Dark brown duck best distinguished by white wing-bar and at close range by purple speculum.
- Dr. FEBLES: This is called a speculum, and I put this in their mouth to keep their mouth open so that I can put my hands in there and work without any kind of fear of getting my fingers removed. A Dentist Who Goes Straight To The Horse's Mouth
- He used the Golden Legend, Huon de Meri's allegorical poem of the fight between Jesus and the Antichrist, Peter Comestor's Bible History, Rustebeuf's La Voie de Paradis, Grosseteste's religious allegory of Le Chastel d 'Amour, the paraded learning of Vincent of Beauvais in Speculum Historiale, and other works -- numerous and small signs of booklore, which are completely overshadowed by his illuminating comprehension of the popular side in the politics of his day. Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
- Note 138: Honorius Augustodunensis, Speculum ecclesiae; PL 172.852; Wolter, no. 8, p. 43: "me in gremio suo accepit." back A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- An instrument consisting of a tube or speculum equipped with a light, used to examine rectum.