For infants, passively elevating the tongue tip with atonguedepressormay reveal the problem.
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Tonguedepressorsticks are strongly recommended for construction as they have lower tension than craft sticks and thus are easier to work with.
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The health professional will press the tongue down with a flat stick ("tonguedepressor") and then examine the mouth and throat.
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Oropharyngeal secretions were collected from children using sterile cotton-tipped applicator swabs with tongue depressors to visualize the oropharynx.
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Invasive fungal infections and contaminated tongue depressors.
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Since they are inexpensive and difficult to clean, wooden tongue depressors are normally labeled for disposal after a single use.
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For example: engineered wood, millwork, cabinets, furniture, tongue depressors or popsicle sticks, just to name a few.
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Examples range from simple devices such as tongue depressors, medical thermometers, and disposable gloves to advanced devices such as medical robots, cardiac pacemakers, and neuroprosthetics.
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A recent competition had students building bridges using tongue depressors and glue, with bridges spanning more than four feet.
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Winnicott placed a shinytonguedepressorat the edge of the table and conveyed how he wished the adult to contribute as little as possible to what happened next.
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His first invention, as a child, was for a lightedtonguedepressorthat his father, a local physician, could use.
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