Sentences with phrase «thin flexible tube»

The tool that the scientists are about to test is known as a bronchoscope, a pencil - thin flexible tube that is fed down the airways and into the bronchi.

In catheter ablation, an electrophysiologist inserts a catheter (thin flexible tube) in a groin artery and guides it through blood vessels to the heart.

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It can be placed on the mother's chest or a pole and is connected to very thin, flexible tubes that can be fixed alongside the mother's nipples.

The device consists of a plastic pouch or bag to hold breast milk or formula attached to thin, flexible tubes that run down each breast to the nipple.

North Carolina - based Semprius is making ultra-efficient solar cells as thin as a pencil tip and flexible enough to roll into a tube or print on plastic or cloth.

Removal of adenomas by colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy (a thin flexible lighted tube used for inspection of the inside of the rectum and lower part of the colon) has been endorsed as a primary prevention tool for colorectal cancer, according to background information in the article.

TAVR, a procedure used to treat aortic valve stenosis, involves threading a long, thin, flexible tube, called a catheter, through the femoral artery in the leg to the heart.

During the IUI procedure, the doctor slides a thin, flexible tube through your cervix into your uterus.