previous next

Search′er.


1. (Surgical.) An instrument for feeling after urinary concretions. It partakes of the character of a catheter, a douche, and a forceps. The staff is a cannula. The bent ends are joined in introducing the instrument into the urethra, and are separable to grasp the stone. Through the stem may be introduced liquids to wash out the bladder.

2. A kind of probe used in examining a horse's hoof.

Lithotomy-Searcher.


3. (Ordnance.) An instrument used for examining the bore of a gun. It is attached to a staff, and has steel points pressed outward by springs, so as to enter cavities, if any exist, when pushed in and drawn out and turned around in the bore.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.

hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: