Devices
Devices noun - An inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'.
Veins
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Various "vein viewer" or "vein vision" devices, largely based on principles of transillumination, claim to allow medical providers to "see" deep peripheral veins for intravenous access.
Source: Vein-O-Vision -
Unfortunately the devices rarely work as advertised - a skilled phlebotomist can do just as well or better without the device, and the devices occasionally fail to visualize surface veins that can easily be seen with a naked eye.
Source: Vein-O-Vision -
Many failed, incomplete, or patently unworkable Doomsday Devices get activated as a last ditch effort to hold off invaders when all other methods have failed; a common version is digging straight down through adamantine veins as a final "screw you" to the would-be conquerors.
Source: Godzilla Threshold
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