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Artifact Name	Stainless Steel Adenotome
Type of Object	Adenotome
Manufacturer	Sklar
Place of Manufacture	Germany
Date of Manufacture	1959
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	2 cm. x 23.5 cm. x 6 cm.
Physical Details	Stainless steel adenotome with finger grips and screw-in adjusting plate. Instrument is composed of several constituent pieces. The grip body moves on the handle and pushes forward to a cavity with two slots in the head at the distal end. Handle is attached to a thin, slotted metal plate that slides in and out of the concave distal end, and is used to cut the adenoids. Engraved lightly "St. P. O. R." on the rear of the handle.
Medical Subject	Tonsillectomy -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1982.126d
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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