Medical Equipment Glossary

Medical suction units that plug into the wall suction supply. Wall suction units include a connector to mate with the wall suction outlet, a gauge to show the vacuum, a control valve, filters and a reservoir.

The distance between one peak or crest of a wave of light, heat, or other energy and the next corresponding peak or crest.

A bacterial filter for use in anaesthetic and lung ventilator airways.

A special X-ray film cassette which produces a pattern on the X-ray film caused by differing attenuations through various thicknesses of copper in the cassette. The pattern produced allows calculation of the kilovoltage of the X-ray set.