Cotton swab
Cotton swab The most common uses for cotton swabs include aural hygiene and cosmetics application. Cotton swabs (British English: cotton buds) are used ...
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Q-tips
... tips® are the best-known brand of cotton swabs in Canada and the United States. Q-tip brand cotton swabs are manufactured by Unilever. Most commonly they ... Q-tips Company, observed his wife adding cotton to toothpicks. It was originally called ...
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Earwax
... It is generally advised not to use cotton swabs (Q-Tips or cotton buds) as these will likely push the ... used carelessly, perforate the eardrum or worse. Cotton swabs should be used only to clean ...
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Talk:Papersticks
... neutral" discussion of their benefits compared to cotton buds. Kappa 10:18, 18 Feb 2005 ... UTC) As far as I can tell, " cotton buds " refer to what are commonly referred ... in the US as Q-tips or cotton swabs. Check the wiki article for details. The ... vote for deletion and integration into the cotton buds article. Papersticks (google for it) ...
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Venipuncture
... holder, an adjustable tourniquet, appropriate tubes, alcohol swabs, cotton wool, sticky tape, and a pen for ... in. Once the needle is removed, clean cotton wool should be pressed onto the wound ... labelled straight away. The wound under the cotton wool should be checked, then the cotton wool taped to the patient's ...
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Otitis externa
... wax from the ear canal, especially with cotton swabs or small objects, can irritate or damage ... Do not scratch the ears or insert cotton swabs or other objects in the ears. Keep ...
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Colposcopy
... acid is applied to the cervix using cotton swabs. The transformation zone is a critical area ... Monsel's solution is applied with large cotton swabs to the surface of the cervix to ...
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Reduction (medicine)   (translated from German)
... medical routine measure, with with usually sterile cotton swabs, one takes from small brushes or small ... or"PAP reduction"mentioned). By means of cotton wool carriers becomes from the region of ... reduction: With the help of a sterile cotton swab thereby out of a focal infection ...
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Talk:Tonsillolith
... you can take a flashlight and a cotton tipped stick and "pop" out the tonsillolith ... use to swabbing your tonsils with a cotton tipped stick, you may get a gag ... was cause I was fed up with cotton swabs and gagging trying to get the real ...
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Swab
... piece of material, such as gauze or cotton, which is used to clean wounds, apply ... body fluids such as blood or mucus. Swabs may be attached to stiff wires or ... a noninvasive technique which is easily mastered. Swabs are also used for cleaning and/or ... of plastics. It has been found that swabs made by different manufacturers can give different ...
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