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The product name certainly rolls off the tongue better than the generic “cotton swab” name ... who observed his wife stick bits of cotton to toothpicks. He decided that his wife had the ...

“In a cotton swab, the fibers are twisted around the stick, creating a cage that traps ... “[Daniele] sowed an entrepreneurial culture,” she says, “not just to me, but to the whole company.” ...

The doctor will use a flat stick, known as the tongue depressor ... This gives a larger sample than a swab. The swab is then streaked on to culture dishes containing growth media and allowed ...

Pain enters the picture when the swab — a tuft of nylon attached to a lollipop-like stick — is administered at the wrong angle, said Dr. Yuka Manabe, a professor of medicine specializing in ...

I know I am not supposed to stick cotton swabs in my ears. We all know this. It says so right there on the Q-tip packaging: “Do not insert swab into ear canal.” The American Academy of ...