Medical Device and Equipment Terms

A thin, tube-like instrument used to remove tissue from inside the body.

A thin, tube-like instrument used to examine the inside of the nose.

A scanner is an imaging instrument, such as a CT, MRI, or ultrasound machine, that produces detailed pictures of internal body structures.

Every sensor answers exactly one question, so a reading that looks wrong is as likely to reflect the sensor as the patient.

A sigmoidoscope is a lighted, tube shaped instrument used to view and sometimes sample tissue from the rectum and lower colon.

An instrument used to widen an opening of the body to make it easier to look inside.

A hollow tube and a taut membrane, unchanged in principle since its invention, and still the fastest way to hear inside a chest.

A device used to look at tissues in the esophagus.

A rigid lighted telescope passed between two ribs to look directly at the lung surface and its lining.

A tourniquet is a band applied tightly around a limb to restrict blood flow, used for blood draws, surgery, or emergency bleeding control.

Breathing through an opening in the neck rather than the nose and mouth, with the voice box left out of the path.

A device used to look at tissues in the esophagus, stomach, and intestines.