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  • Acupuncture needles: Lance Needle (feng zhen), Chinese
  • Acupuncture needles: Spoon Needle (chi zhen), Chinese
  • Acupuncture needles: Round Sharp Needle (yuanli zhen)
  • Acupuncture needles: Arrow-Headed Needle (chan zhen), Chinese
  • 'Cleopatra's Needle, on the Victoria Thames embankment'
  • 'Raising Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames embankment'
  • Needle and thread stitching up a wound, artwork
  • 'Abandonment of Cleopatra's Needle in the Bay of Biscay, ...'
  • Threaded needle, SEM
  • Where to get your works : London Needle Exchange / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Where to get your works : London Needle Exchange / The Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Tissue temperature indicator needle probes
  • Surgical Instrument (clamp, needle holder)
  • Surgical Instruments (clamp, needle holder)
  • Paediatric finger diagnosis chart: Suspended needle pattern
  • The Blue/Green Dragon [acupuncture] needle, Chinese woodcut
  • The Blue/Green Dragon [acupuncture] needle, Chinese woodcut
  • Physics: a magnetic needle [?], with logarithmic apparatus (below). Engraving.
  • A Korean acupuncturist inserting a needle into the leg of a male patient.
  • A Korean acupuncturist inserting a needle into the leg of a male patient.
  • Two men sitting on a carpet, engaged in needle work. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The star of David incorporating a needle; representing AIDS among Jews and the work of the Jewish Aids Trust. Lithograph.
  • An Irish bachelor sits threading a needle to mend his ragged clothes. Lithograph by T. Maguire, 1855, after E. Nicol.
  • A baby raising its arms towards a needle: Expanded Programme of Immunization in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Federal DSC Unit, ca. 1995.
  • A compass whose magnetic needle is entirely surrounded by metal, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W.K. Röntgen, 1895.
  • A cloaked figure of death bearing the word 'AIDS' on one sleeve and holding syringes that spill blood as if weapons; advertisement for the Sterile Needle Exchange by the Life Foundation Community Health Outreach Program. Colour lithograph.
  • A used needle poised above a safety box; promoting safe work practices in Ethiopian health organisations. Colour lithograph by Y. G. Mariam, ca. 2000.
  • A doctor inserting a needle into a patient's arm with a warning about the importance of using sterilized needles; an AIDS prevention advertisement by SASO, Lifeline, Lighthouse, Kripa and VHAM. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A little girl in Elizabethan costume stands in a room trying to thread a needle. Etching by A. Boulard the younger after Laura Alma Tadema.
  • The bones of a hand, viewed through x-ray; possibly with a needle just below the wrist. Photoprint from radiograph after Sir Arthur Schuster, 1896.