vaginal speculum

It can be performed quickly, as a vaginal speculum or anoscope is not required.

Your doctor may use a vaginal speculum to view your cervix.

In his mind's eye he saw the correct angle at which the vaginal speculum allowed him a perfect view of the cervix.

A vaginal speculum is a metal or plastic device used during a pelvic exam.

The vaginal speculum was first used in ancient Greece and some contemporary specula were found in Cyprus.

The gynaecologist asks me: 'Is this size of vaginal speculum really used in the Netherlands and are the delivery beds that wide?'

Veda-scope (dilating vaginal speculum)

Récamier is credited with the popularization of several instruments in gynecological medicine, including the curette, vaginal speculum and the uterine sound.

A collection of 'stones' (as in 'kidney' and 'gall-') and the somewhat alarming ancient Roman vaginal speculum leave lasting impressions.

A vaginal speculum is commonly used in artificial insemination procedures and are routinely used for IUI inseminations.

And how wonderfully precise it was, Homer thought; that the vaginal speculum comes in more than one size; that there was always a size that was just right.

Larch had asked Homer to insert the vaginal speculum, and Homer now stared darkly at the woman's shiny cervix, at the puckered opening of the uterus.

The light is generated by a chemiluminescent light stick, which is attached to the inner side of the upper blade of the vaginal speculum by an adhesive strip.

She regarded the paperweight on Larch's desk; it was a weighted vaginal speculum, but it held down a lot of paper and most of the would-be foster families didn't know what it was.

A vaginal speculum suggests gynecology was practiced, and an anal speculum implies knowledge that the size and condition of internal organs accessible through the orifices was an indication of health.

A vaginal speculum, developed by J. Marion Sims, consists of a hollow cylinder with a rounded end that is divided into two hinged parts, somewhat like the beak of a duck.

A specialized form of vaginal speculum is the weighted speculum, which consists of a broad half tube which is bent at about a 90 degree angle, with the channel of the tube on the exterior side of the angle.

Other eponyms in the field of obstetrics that bear his name are: "Auvard maneuver" - a procedure for extraction of the placenta; "Auvard's vaginal speculum", and "Auvard's basiotribe" - an instrument that is a combination of a craniotomy forceps and a cranioclast.

After all, as she writes, prior to Roentgen's discovery, "19th-century American physicians (unlike their colleagues in France) did not examine their female patients with the relatively newly invented vaginal speculum because it was held to be 'unjustifiable on the grounds of propriety and morality' for a physician to look at a woman's genitalia."