A speculum is a medical tool - generally out of metal or of single use out of plastic - making it possible to explore a body cavity by the spacing of the walls.

Definition

From Latin speculum “ mirror comes” because it makes it possible to see (thus a mirror is known as specular).

Examples

• nasal Speculum
• auricular speculum,
• vaginal speculum
• speculum of Hake
• speculum of Cusco
• speculum of virgin

Use

To visualize and examine, for example, the uterine collar and the vagina and to give an access to the cervical channel and the uterine cavity to practice multiple examinations and surgical operations.

Examples of use

• the description of the lesions vaginal and cervical macroscopic, infectious, inflammatory, traumatic or tumoral;
• determination of the origin of a genital bleeding;
• the realization of the taking away bacteriological, parasitologic and virological vaginal and cervico-uterine

Sexual use

The specula belong to the accessories so associated with the practices BDSM. They relate to all the aspects Dilatation, Soumission, " tortures" and medical Phantasm S. Their use applies then to the vagina and the anus.

Sources

• (http://www.aly-abbara.com/livre_gyn_obs/termes/speculum.html)

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