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a thin tube put into your body to remove a liquid such as urine

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a piece of equipment for giving the heart an electric shock to make it start to beat normally again

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a tube that carries liquid away from your body, for example one that carries blood away from an injury

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a piece of equipment used in a hospital for putting a liquid such as medicine directly into your body

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a machine used in hospitals for showing how well someone’s heart is beating. The picture it shows or prints is also called an ECG.

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electroencephalograph: a machine that records electrical activity in the brain

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an ecg

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an ecg

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an eeg 1

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an eeg 2

a needle fitted into a tube that looks like a pen, used for putting a drug into someone who is having a severe allergic reaction to something

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a large container filled with salt water in which people float in order to completely relax

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a medical tool with two long narrow parts, used for holding things during medical operations

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a small tube that is put into a child’s ear to remove liquid that is blocking it

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a small piece of equipment that someone wears in their ear to help them to hear

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a machine used for making blood and oxygen flow around someone’s body when they are having a medical operation on their heart

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a narrow plastic tube with a needle used for putting drugs into your body through the skin

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an object that doctors put into someone’s body during a medical operation

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a piece of hospital equipment that ill or premature babies lie in to be kept warm and given treatment

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a tube used for inhaling medicine into your lungs to help you to breathe more easily

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a drip for putting liquid into your body

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a doctor’s scalpel

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a piece of equipment that produces light and heat, used in medical treatment and scientific research

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a small knife with two sharp edges used by doctors

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a piece of equipment that produces a powerful narrow line of light. It is used for cutting hard substances, directing the paths of missiles, and in medical operations

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a set of machines that keep someone alive when they are very ill

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a thread or wire that doctors tie around a blood vessel to stop someone losing blood

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a piece of equipment used for showing and recording what is happening in a particular part of someone’s body

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a very thin sharp metal tube used for putting medicine or drugs into your body, or for taking blood out. It is fixed to a plastic tube called a syringe

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a thin piece of metal used for acupuncture

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a table that someone lies on while doctors operate on them

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an object that fits over your face and is connected to a container of oxygen, used for helping you to breathe normally

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a large container filled with oxygen that doctors put around a person who cannot breathe normally

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a small piece of electronic equipment connected to someone’s heart to help the heart muscles move regularly

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a piece of plastic put into a woman’s vagina to support her womb

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a thin piece of metal that a doctor puts through a broken bone to support it

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a piece of metal put into a part of someone’s body to protect it

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a long thin medical instrument used for examining things inside your body

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an artificial body part

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an inhaler

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a machine used in hospitals for helping people who cannot breathe on their own

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an object covering your nose and mouth that helps you to breathe when you are in a place that is full of smoke or gas

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a small sharp knife used by a doctor for doing an operation

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a piece of equipment that is used for producing a picture of the inside of a part of someone’s body for a medical examination

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the special clothes worn by doctors and nurses when they do a medical operation

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a small tube placed in your body to carry blood or fluid from one place to another

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a small stick used by doctors to hold your tongue down so that they can examine your throat

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a very small, artificial tube placed in an artery or other tube in the body in order to hold the artery, etc. open

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a piece of equipment used by doctors for listening to someone’s heart or breathing

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a thing that is used for supporting your foot, for example when giving birth

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a short piece of thread that is used for joining someone’s skin together after it has been cut

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equipment used for removing things from your stomach. It includes a tube that goes down your throat.

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the stitch or stitches used for closing the edges of a cut

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a needle fitted to a plastic tube, used for taking blood from your body or for putting medicine or drugs into it

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a machine that pushes air in and out of someone’s lungs when they cannot breathe on their own