Assertion: speculum | /r/HasProperty | introduced
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text: The specula known from the prior art have a housing that cannot be inserted, or cannot adequately be inserted, into the mouth of the vagina because of external projections and/or the housing or the speculum is provided with external surfaces which, viewed in the longitudinal direction of the speculum, diverge towards the outer end of the speculum and thus constitute an engagement surface for a force tending to expel the speculum, which force, as a consequence of the elastic properties of the vaginal tissue, is exerted on the speculum that has been introduced.
text: Because the fleshy ring of muscle tissue 50 engages in the constriction 52 and/or 53, the speculum automatically remains held in position, at least when it has been introduced.
text: After the speculum has been introduced, the mouth of the vagina will be in the position of this region of oval cross-section, as is indicated by centre line 50 approximately at the location of the hinges 7 which then, for example, are just inside the body cavity.
text: It will be clear that in this case also the fleshy ring 51 of muscle tissue will not be able to exert an expelling force on a speculum that has been introduced.
text: As will be clear from the embodiments shown in the figures and the associated description, it is preferable according to the invention if the hinge axis in respect of which the one spoon blade and other spoon blade are hingeable with respect to one another is inside, optionally just inside, the mouth of the vagina when the speculum has been introduced.