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Plummer's dilator (medicine)


Plummer's dilator


An instrument for dilating the lower end of the oesophagus in cardiospasm; it consists of a rubber tube with a perforated metal tip, and a dilatable elongated balloon near its lower end; in difficult cases the tube is threaded along a guiding thread swallowed by the patient.