Swab

The doctor has taken a swab from the mucous membrane.

It seems to be a swab for the cannon.

Once the sample is taken, put the cotton swab in a test tube and label with the patient's name.

Swab the deck.

Tom used a cotton swab to clean his ear.

I took the Covid swab this morning.

A nasal swab revealed that she had Covid-19.

Emma Gaya winces with pain as the nurse at her local clinic inserts a swab deep into her nose.

The doctor took a swab of the mucous membrane.

Tom threw the used cotton swab in the trash.

As for that swab, he's good and dead, he is.

swab the deck of a ship

He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.