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What is a speculum?

What is a speculum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) A medical instrument used during an examination to dilate an orifice.
  2. A mirror, especially one used in a telescope.
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The surgeon uses a wire speculum to retract the eyelids to expose the eyeball.
Both sexes have a black and white wing-patch, or speculum, that is distinctive in flight.
An instrument called a speculum, the same as used for a smear test, is sometimes used.
Both sexes have orange feet and a blue speculum, or wing-patch, bordered in white on two sides, best seen in flight.
Ecchymoses and minor lacerations at peri-introital and posterior fourchette may also recur after coitus or during a speculum examination.
The audit found a practice nurse had been disinfecting but not sterilising an instrument known as a speculum.

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