Talk:stripper

Tea room discussion
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)


 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)


 * ✅ Sense was added. Equinox ◑ 21:05, 8 June 2020 (UTC)