equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other) | a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens |
television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam | electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves |
| a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix |
| (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration |