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TUBE HOLDER [8 records]

Record 1 2011-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research Equipment
OBS

Term(s) taken from a Canadian laboratory equipment company’s catalogue.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel et équipement (Recherche scientifique)
OBS

Terme(s) tiré(s) du catalogue d'une compagnie canadienne d'équipement de laboratoire.

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgical Instruments
DEF

An instrument used to attach surgical drapes to each other or to the patient in order to maintain a sterile field at the time of operation.

OBS

Towel-clamp forceps or simply towel clamps are used to maintain surgical towels and drapes in the correct position during an operation. They are locking type forceps with curved ends. The beak may be pointed or blunt and flat. They may even overlap in closed position. ... Many of the towel clamps are made of stainless steel or other sterilizable materials which can be recovered, autocalved or sterilized, and reused. ... Towel clamp forceps are used to connect toweling which drapes or covers those regions of a surgical patient’s anatomy which are not exposed during the surgical procedure.

OBS

There are many varieties of towel clamp, clip or forceps, often bearing the name of their inventor: Backhaus towel clamp; Backhauss towel forceps; Backhaus Kocher towel clamp; Backhauss-Roeder towel clamps forceps; Ball and Socket towel forceps; Bernhard towel clamp; Doyen towel clamp; Doyen towel clamps forceps; English model towel clamp; Jones towel clamp; Jones towel clamps forceps; Jones towel forceps; Lane towel clamp; Lorna towel forceps; Mayo towel forceps; Moynihan towel clamp; Moynihan towel clamps forceps; Roeder towel clamp; Schaedel towel clamp; etc.

PHR

towel clamp with tube holder; wide jaw towel clamp for tube fixation; non perforating towel forceps; piercing towel clip; piercing towel clamp.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments chirurgicaux
DEF

Petit accessoire de chirurgie en forme de pince qui se referme automatiquement et sert à fixer les champs opératoires et les compresses.

CONT

Une pince à drap placée le long de la tubulure fixe cette dernière de manière à assurer un bon écoulement et éviter la stagnation des urines dans un repli.

OBS

Il existe plusieurs variétés de pinces à champs, portant fréquemment le nom de leur inventeur : pince à champs de Backaus; pince à champ Bailey; pince à champ de Jayle; pince à champ Schaedel; pince à champ type Kocher; etc.

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
  • Centesis and Samplings
CONT

The Vacutainer needle is pointed at both ends, with one end shorter than the other. The long end of the needle is used for insertion into the vein, the shorter end is used to pierce the rubber stopper of the vacuum tube and usually is covered by a rubber sheath. The sheath makes it possible to draw several tubes of blood by preventing leakage of blood as tubes are changed, this is called a multi-draw needle. If the short end is not covered with a rubber sheath, it is a single sample needle and only one tube of blood can be collected.

CONT

Vacutainer System. The combination of a Vacutainer holder, needle and sample tube which allows for a more automated method of drawing blood. When a multi-sample needle is used the system will allow for the aspiration of any number of sample tubes with only one venipuncture.

Key term(s)
  • multi draw needle
  • multi sample needle
  • multidraw needle
  • multisample needle

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux
  • Ponctions et prélèvements
CONT

Méthode de soins infirmiers. Ponction veineuse avec aiguille à prélèvements multiples.

Spanish

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Record 4 2003-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical Instruments and Devices
  • Pharmacology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments et appareillages médicaux
  • Pharmacologie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumental médico
  • Farmacología
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Record 5 2003-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Beekeeping
  • Sugar Industry
DEF

A sweet viscid fluid, of various shades from nearly white to deep golden, being the nectar of flowers collected and worked up for food by certain insects, esp. the honey-bee.

PHR

Honey of borax.

PHR

Honey-heavy, honey-laden.

PHR

Honey bike, brake, -cake, colour, -crock, -cup, drink, -harvest, -knife, -mead, -pore, -scale, -shop, -time, wine.

PHR

Honey-coloured, -hearted, -lipped, -loaded, -steeped, -mouthed, -stored, -wooled.

PHR

Honey agaric, ant,-apple,-baby,-badger,-bag,-balm, banana,-basket,-bearer,-beer,-berry,-blob,-bloom,-bottle,-bread,-bucket,-bun,-bunch,-cell,-cherry, chile,-creeper,-dresser,-extractor,-fall,-farmer,-flow,-fly, fungus,-garlic,-gate,-gatherer,-gilding,-gland,-gold,-holder,-hunter,-kite,-locust,-lotus,-maker,-man,-mark,-meal,-mesquit,-moth,-mouse, mushroom,-pear,-people,-plant,-pod, possum,-rore,-soap,-sop,-spot,-stalks,-stomach,-sucker,-tear,-tube,-ware,-water,-week,-wood,-words,-worker.

PHR

Honey-bearing, -dropping, -eating, -flowing, -gathering, -making, -secreting, -storing, -yielding.

PHR

Borax, clover, corn, heather, stone, wood honey.

PHR

Clarified honey.

PHR

Live, unripe, virgin, white, wild honey.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Élevage des abeilles
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
DEF

Substance sirupeuse et sucrée, de couleur ambrée, que les abeilles élaborent dans leur jabot avec le nectar des fleurs ou d'autres matières végétales, et qu'elles dégorgent dans des alvéoles de cire pour la nourriture de leur communauté.

CONT

Les abeilles vont chercher le nectar des fleurs pour le convertir en miel.

PHR

Fourmi, mouche à miel.

PHR

Bonbon, préparation pharmaceutique au miel.

PHR

Couleur, gâteau, goût, jatte, parfum, pot de miel.

PHR

Douceur, production du miel.

PHR

Miel rosat, violat.

PHR

Miel de Narbonne, du Gâtinais; miel des fleurs.

PHR

Sentir le miel; séparer le miel de la cire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biología vegetal
  • Cría de abejas
  • Industria azucarera
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Record 6 1991-04-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Reproduction
OBS

used to hold tubes of frozen semen for artificial insemination

French

Domaine(s)
  • Reproduction des animaux
OBS

utilisé pour tenir les tubes de semence congelé destinée à l'insémination artificielle

Spanish

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Record 7 1990-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Burners and Steamfitting
CONT

Turbulence is created by the use of devices, the most common of which was the bladed diffuser or stabilizer(which also served as an electrode holder), used in conjunction with an air cone at the mouth of the blast tube(burner gun)....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fumisterie et brûleurs
CONT

Sur certains brûleurs et en particulier sur les tubes longs, il est prévu à 150 mm de l'extrémité un stabilisateur qui comporte des ailettes (avec un passage pour les électrodes et la ligne de gicleur). Ce stabilisateur donne à l'air un mouvement de rotation qui sera accentué dans le déflecteur.

Spanish

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Record 8 1983-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Surgical Equipment

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement médico-chirurgical

Spanish

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