What is it?

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  1. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    Steve, you obviously know the answer, and it is pretty obvious we will never get it. Just answer the damn thing and post another already!
     
    KyleK, Aug 5, 2012
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  2. stevescookin

    stevescookin Certified Who Dat

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    The answer has already been stated in all the clues...
    It is a medical device
    It is for extracting fluids
    It doesn't have to do with kidneys, but pulmones :cool:

    Someone just needs to string all those facts together. I disqualified myself because my (and Herb's) dad is a Pulmonologist.
     
    stevescookin, Aug 5, 2012
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  3. Herb

    Herb Founding Member

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    He's too much of a pleurisy (or maybe his pleurisy itches.)
     
    Herb, Aug 5, 2012
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  4. stevescookin

    stevescookin Certified Who Dat

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    It also can be used for extracting fluids from the peritoneal cavity.
     
    stevescookin, Aug 5, 2012
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  5. Herb

    Herb Founding Member

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    And the name of the device has been given in 2 pop culture clues...just phontically piece them together.
     
    Herb, Aug 5, 2012
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  6. b_leblanc

    b_leblanc That's just my game...

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    damnit...some kind of aspirator.
     
    b_leblanc, Aug 5, 2012
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  7. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    oh my i would need that to reinflate my collapsed lung, because a pneumothorax apparatus has no other purpose.

    hi five bro
     
    martin, Aug 5, 2012
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  8. Herb

    Herb Founding Member

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    Martin gets another attempt to kill the thread by ignoring it.

    It is a pneumothorax device, but it technically is not used to re-inflate a collapsed lung (which is the common name for a pneumothorax).

    The device was actually most commonly used to induce an artificial pneumothorax as a treatment for Tuberculosis.

    http://mcgovernhrc.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/pneumothorax-apparatus/


    Hence the clues "Finding Numo" and the Dr Zeuss classic "Le Thorax".
     
    Herb, Aug 5, 2012
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  9. Herb

    Herb Founding Member

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    Ok,

    Since I stumped everyone and Martin declared the opposite of what the device was used for, I'll go again.

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    What is it?
     
    Herb, Aug 8, 2012
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  10. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Spring-loaded, thumb-screw adjusting, axially-sliding feeler gauge.
     
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