# Medical device symbol?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-device-symbol/832248>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 9, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-device-symbol/832248 "2019-04-09T00:09:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-device-symbol/832248/21 "2019-04-19T03:23:11Z")

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Suitable for use in a zombie outbreak.

Come on - someone was going to say it

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-device-symbol/832248/22 "2019-04-19T15:53:34Z")

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I sent an inquiry to the manufacturer via [http://tinyurl.com/y222ndv8](http://tinyurl.com/y222ndv8). Let’s see what they send back.

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**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-device-symbol/832248/23 "2019-04-20T00:10:25Z")

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It kinda looks familiar to me too, but I haven’t found anything googling various unicode charts.

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**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-device-symbol/832248/24 "2019-04-26T15:25:52Z")

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> [@Bullitt](#):
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> I sent an inquiry to the manufacturer via [http://tinyurl.com/y222ndv8](http://tinyurl.com/y222ndv8). Let’s see what they send back.

I did the same a couple of weeks ago… no reply as yet.

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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-device-symbol/832248/25 "2019-06-02T20:01:12Z")

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Well, I never got anything from the manufacturer. Sparky I’m guessing that you did too.

Crickets.

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**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-device-symbol/832248/26 "2019-06-03T03:40:20Z")

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Appreciate the update.

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/medical-device-symbol/832248/27 "2019-06-03T05:01:20Z")

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Sincere thanks again to everybody who has tried to look into it. I still have no idea what it means; the guess that it might simply be a corporate logo or mark is as plausible as any. Sucks that we can’t get an answer from them.

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