suction tip

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Noun

suction tip (plural suction tips)

  1. (medicine) A Yankauer suction tip, a medical suctioning instrument.
    • 1984, Bernard Nathanson, The Silent Scream:
      But, once the fluid has been drained off, the suction tip has now been firmly clamped to the child’s body, and the child is being pulled in a downward direction, by the abortionist’s suction tip with the negative pressure applied to it, and the body is now being torn, systematically, from the head.
    • 1997 September 19, Cecil Adams, “the Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
      Of course, one must take care not to inadvertently seal the ear canal with the suction tip, thereby risking "tympanic membrane barotrauma" and possibly sucking out the patient's brains.