| Instrument |
Uses |
| Flow cytometer |
used for automated cell counting as in total blood count, differential count, etc. |
| Tissue bath or organ bath or Dale's apparatus |
used in full tissue experiments, for example using guinea pig ileum mainly used in pharmacology for application of drugs to these tissues. |
| Sahli Haemoglobinometer |
an old but rapid and simple method of hemoglobin estimation in the laboratories. Presently used in some places where sophisticated optical instruments are not available |
| Haemocytometer |
a microscope associated apparatus used for manual counting of cells in body fluids like blood, etc. including for sperm count |
| Wintrobe's tube |
used for ESR (Wintrobe's method), PCV, haematocrit, etc. |
| Westergren's tube and ESR stand |
used for ESR (Westergren's method) |
| Disposable plastic molds or embedding molds (Leukart's L blocks) for tissue paraffin block making w.r.t. Histopathology |
used to make blocks of tissue for cutting into thin slices for microscopy |
| Block holders (in histopathology) |
used to hold the tissue blocks during cutting |
| •Refrigerated microtome (cryostat) |
-do-; a special type that is used during operations to aid the surgeon in demarcating the diseased (specially neoplasms) tissue. |
| •Rocking microtome |
-do-; a special type |
| •Base sledge microtome |
-do-; a special type |
| •Ultra microtome |
-do-; a special type |
| Tissue section floating baths (in histopathology) |
used to spread the cut thin slices onto water using surface tension from where it is placed onto glass slides |
| Ryle's tube or nasogastric tube |
used for nasogastric suction (or at times introduction of food or drugs). vide link |
| FNAC needles |
used for fine needle aspiration of material from inside the body; used for diagnostic examinations of the cells hence obtained; vide link |
| Trephine biopsy needle[4] |
used for taking a biopsy from a deep hard tissue like bone marrow (within a hard bone) |
| Spirometer |
used to test lung function; vide link |
| •Water-seal type |
-do- |
| •Douglas bag type |
-do- |
| Peak flow meter or peak expiatory flow rate meter |
used to test lung function by testing the rate at which the person can exhale; useful to diagnose COPD and asthma |
| Mercury or other manometers |
used to measure pressure of a fluid within a cavity like the spinal canal, which is raised in certain diseases |
| Electrocardiogra |