Technical note: A finger extension tongue depressor.
The author describes a tongue depressor which can be adapted to the examiner's thumb while performing indirect laryngoscopy. This depressor allows the examiner to pull the tongue and push it downward in patient where otherwise vision is obscured by the dorsum of the tongue.
D006801:Humans; D020704:Laryngoscopes; D007828:Laryngoscopy / Q000379:methods; D014059:Tongue