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Learn About Hospital Tools

Doctors and nurses use special tools, called instruments, to examine and treat patients. Pictured here are some of those instruments. You may have seen some of them when you visited the doctor's office.

Draw a line from each instrument's name to the correct instrument's picture.

Doctors and nurses use special tools, called instruments, to examine and treat patients. Pictured here are some of those instruments. You may have seen some of them when you visited the doctor's office.

Draw a line from each instrument's name to the correct instrument's picture.

 

stethoscope
(listens to your heart)
otoscope
(looks in nose and ears)
ophthalmoscope
(looks in eyes)
sphygmomanometer
(blood pressure cuff)
thermometer
(takes your temperature)
tongue depressor
(holds down tongue when
doctor looks in your throat)
reflex hammer
(taps your knee)

St. Louis Children's Hospital is affiliated with Washington University School of Medicine.

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