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Artifact Name	Steel Tongue Depressor
Type of Object	Depressor, tongue
Manufacturer	Pilling
Place of Manufacture	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	1.8 cm. x 14.5 cm. x 10.5 cm.
Physical Details	Steel tongue depressor meant to be held by the patient during an examination. The handle has grooves and a thumb indentation for grip. The depressor arm extends roughly horizontally from the handle, and has a wedge-shaped fenestration at the tip. The bottom of the tip has ridges to help retard movement of the tongue.
Medical Subject	Diagnostic Equipment; Diagnosis, Oral -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1984.5.1
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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