Talk:stripper

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What is this thing called? Informally, it's a stripper, or so the workers at a blood drive I visited recently told me, but they didn't know what its real name is.—msh210 18:36, 2 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

If it is "a surgical instrument for stripping the periosteum from bone", then it is a "stripper", according to FreeDictionary.com, which has Elsevier Saunder's veterinary dictionary. Many more impressive sounding surgical terms are taken from French, so an answer might be among French translations of stripper. DCDuring TALK 20:11, 2 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
No, it's a device used to clamp together an infusion (IV) tube and/or to roll the tube through the device so that anything in the tube gets pushed down along the tube to the end. (Or something like that, anyway.)—msh210 21:56, 2 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
Someone at Wikipedia's reference Desk has confirmed that it's really called a stripper, not just informally.—msh210 18:06, 3 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
Done Done Sense was added. Equinox 21:05, 8 June 2020 (UTC)Reply