Instruments used in

medical laboratories

This is a list of instruments used in general in laboratories, including:

Biochemistry

Microbiology

Pharmacology[1][2][3]

Instrument list
 Instrument Uses

Test tube

Folin-Wu tube

Glass slide mycole in microscopy, serology, etc. as the solid backing on which test samples
and cover slips are

used for preparation of culture media and the culture of organisms they
Petri dish
are in

Glass beaker reagent storage

Glass flask gastric acid, or other fluid titration

Pasteur pipette for aspiration and addition of reagents

for aspiration and addition of reagents, often of minuscule amounts of the

Graduated pipettes
material; used mainly in colorimetry

Syringes

prevention of transmission of diseases (as long as not cut or perforated)

Disposable gloves
to or from the user

This is used to cause an artificial venous stasis by applying pressure

through this rubber tube. This leads to engorgement of the veins, allowing
Tourniquet
them to be seen more easily. Used for intravenous injections and
cannulation.

Microscope used for visualising minute structures, including microbes

Bunsen burner or
spirit lamps or source of fire / heat
candles

used to separate particles dispersed in a liquid according to their

Ultracentrifuge
molecular mass

Electrophoresis used to detect and classify serum proteins or proteins from any other
apparatus source; also used for DNA separation

Chromatography:

• Gas
chromatography or
Gas liquid
chromatography
(GLC)

• Planar
chromatography

• Paper
chromatography

• Thin layer
chromatography

• Affinity
chromatography

• Ion exchange
chromatography

• Size exclusion
chromatography

• Countercurrent
chromatography

• Countercurrent
chromatography

• Hematology
analyzer

• Semiauto
analyzer

• Reflotron

Previously this was widely used to detect various things in bold fluids like
Setup for
proteins (natural, infective, those produced by the body in reaction to
radioimmunoassay
disease, or cancer related), tumor markers, hormones, viruses (hepatitis, or
or RIA
HIV), etc.

Setup for enzyme It is presently widely used to detect various things in bold fluids like
linked proteins (natural, infective, those produced by the body in reaction to
immunosorbant disease, or cancer related), tumor markers, hormones, viruses (hepatitis,
assay (ELISA) HIV), etc. It has replaced RIA.

Colorimeter used in photochemical analysis and quantitative estimation of substances

such as blood sugar, creatinine, and hemoglobin.
Burette used to measure the amount of acid or alkali used in titration

General laboratory
stands, racks, filter
paper, reagents,
etc.

Induction coils as a source of high voltage electricity

Cathode ray
'
oscilloscope

Recording historically, used in human or animal experiments to measure and record

kymograph data

Long extension historically, used in or human animal experiments to measure and record
kymograph data

Label-free detection of molecule binding. Used to determine kinetic

Surface plasmon
constants of the interaction (ka, kd, KD). Can also be used for
resonance
thermodynamic analysis.

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Test tubes in racks

Beaker