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Artifact Name	Stainless Steel Pelvimeter
Type of Object	Pelvimeter
Manufacturer	Powers & Anderson
Place of Manufacture	Richmond (Va.)
Date of Manufacture	1960
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	0.8 cm. x 34 cm. x 10 cm.
Physical Details	Stainless steel Martin pelvimeter with measures up to 45cm. Three major constituent parts make up the instrument, two detachable blades and an arc for reading measurements (in centimeters). Each blade is bowed outward and has a large opening slat in the middle for the insertion and free movement of the arc-shaped measurement scale. There is a small bulbed ending at the distal end of each blade. A screw connects the measurement arc to the blade.
Medical Subject	Diagnostic Techniques, Obstetrical and Gynecological -- instrumentation
Accession Number	2004.4.60
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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