Vehicle horn Several languages have either borrowed or transcribed the name into their lexicons. In Japanese, the word refers to car horns in general, and in verb form () refers to sounding the horn. This is also true in languages such as French (), Italian (), Dutch (), Russian (), Polish (), Spanish (), Romanian (), Czech (), Turkish (), Indonesian (), and Korean (). In countries applying the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, usage of audible warnings is limited, and allowed only in two cases: Vehicle horn A horn is a sound-making device that can be equipped to motor vehicles, buses,
Hyfrecator Hyfrecator The word "hyfrecator" is a portmanteau derived from “high-frequency eradicator.” It was introduced as a brand name for a device introduced in 1940 by the Birtcher Corporation of Los Angeles. Birtcher also trademark registered the name Hyfrecator in 1939, and rights to the registered trademark were acquired by ConMed Corporation when it acquired Birtcher in 1995. Today, machines with the name "Hyfrecator" are sold only by ConMed Corporation. However, the word "hyfrecator" is sometimes used as a genericized trademark to refer to any dedicated non-ground-return electrosurgical apparatus, and a number of manufacturers now produce such machines, although not by