How to Use speculum in a Sentence

speculum

noun

• Once the speculum is in place, your doctor will use a swab to collect some cells from your cervix and send them to the lab.
  — Kara Wahlgren, Seventeen, 10 Apr. 2017
• Once the speculum is in place, your doctor will use a swab to collect some cells from your cervix and send them to the lab.
  — Kara Wahlgren, Seventeen, 29 Jan. 2019
• The presence of a white bar border on the speculum (found on drake mallards) varies from bird-to-bird.
  — Ryan Chelius, Outdoor Life, 1 Mar. 2021
• The speculum meant not touching with your hand, but with an object.
  — Daniela Blei, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2018
• Then, a small speculum gently holds the patient's eyes open.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• Ducks will not have their plumage yet, so the best way to identify blue-wings is by the blue and white speculum feathers on their wings.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 26 June 2020
• Some said the doctor did not use a speculum or gloves during exams.
  — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 May 2022
• The good news is that speculums come in several different lengths and widths.
  — Jessica Wakeman, SELF, 11 Jan. 2019
• Some women said the doctor did not use a speculum during exams.
  — Becky Jacobs, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Mar. 2022
• One reason for that aversion has to do with the usage of one specific instrument: the speculum.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2024
• While the speculum is inserted, your doctor will use a soft brush or a flat scraping device to take samples for your Pap test and to test for certain STIs.
  — Kristin Canning, SELF, 24 Apr. 2018
• Specifically, by grabbing a mirror and speculum and viewing their cervixes for the first time.
  — Delfina V Barbiero, USA TODAY, 17 July 2019
• When Steven Williams, MD, was a plastic surgery resident in the early 2000s, nose job essentials included a scalpel, a nasal speculum, and a mold depicting the size and shape the post-surgery nose should be.
  — Sierra Leone Starks, Allure, 22 Mar. 2023
• The classification attributed to this size speculum is a historic name and used industry-wide in and outside the UK.
  — Sophia Smith Galer, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2022
• The classification attributed to this size speculum is an historic [sic] name and used industry-wide in and outside the UK.
  — Sophia Smith Galer, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• Because my gynecologist has mastered the art of warming the speculum.
  — Kristen Mulrooney, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2022
• This may be the first musical to incorporate into its stage directions the fondling of a medical speculum.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• Seated with your legs in stirrups, like during a regular pelvic exam, your doctor will insert a speculum.
  — S. Nicole Lane, SELF, 17 Aug. 2017
• Heier held May’s left eye open with the tongs of a metal speculum, gave her antiseptic and numbing eye drops, and then pressed on her eye with a Q-tip for 30 seconds to decompress it before deftly injecting the drug.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• The current speculum had not been updated in a century and a half, according to its creator, Malene Hegenberger.
  — CNN, 8 June 2021
• Another wears a tiara created out of a speculum—a device Sims invented for vaginal exams.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2022
• Later, while helping to coordinate care for homeless women, Adams noticed the absence of even basic medical equipment such as a speculum.
  — Alison Bowen, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2021
• For critics in the medical community, the speculum compromised a woman’s morality.
  — Daniela Blei, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2018
• Vaginismus is an automatic response, so Molly can’t relax her muscles when a gynecologist tries to insert a speculum.
  — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
• Nonetheless, the speculum triumphed, ultimately giving men more medical power and authority over women patients, who frequently had little or no power to consent along the way.
  — TIME, 24 Apr. 2024
• Former colleagues had questioned his methods of pelvic exams, specifically, his practice of digital insertion before using a speculum.
  — CBS News, 27 June 2019
• Former colleagues had questioned his methods of pelvic exams, specifically, his practice of digital insertion before using a speculum.
  — CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
• Sims is also credited with developing the modern speculum and procedures for examining women.
  — al, 28 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024