Meanings
plural suction tips
- medicineA Yankauer suction tip, a medical suctioning instrument.
Of course, one must take care not to inadvertently seal the ear canal with the suction tip, thereby risking "tympanic membrane barotrauma" and possibly sucking out the patient's brains.
1997 September 19, Cecil Adams, “the Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader1 more example
But, once the fluid has been drained off, the suction tip has now been firmly clamped to the child’s body, and the child is being pulled in a downward direction, by the abortionist’s suction tip with the negative pressure applied to it, and the body is now being torn, systematically, from the head.
1984, Bernard Nathanson, The Silent Scream
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