A vaginal speculum and a soft cup may also be used.
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Dilating vaginal speculum inflating vagina and light illuminating ( cervical brush inserts through top inlet)
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Vaginal speculum examination was performed, and pH was measured.
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Equipped with vaginal speculums, they traveled the United States to share their information with women around the country.
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They find broken windows, rusted gurneys and shortages of thermometers, sterilizing trays and vaginal speculums among overworked counselors and hospital employees.
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Boivin invented a new pelvimeter and a vaginal speculum, and the medical textbooks that she wrote were translated to different languages and used for 150 years.
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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.
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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.
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The best-known speculum is the bivalved vaginal speculum; the two blades are hinged and are " closed " when the speculum is inserted to facilitate its entry and " opened " in its final position where they can be arrested by a screw mechanism, so that the operator is freed from keeping the blades apart.
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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 ."