Daughter quietly interrupts pulse with hospital equipment (6)
I believe the answer is:
bedpan
'hospital equipment' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'daughter quietly interrupts pulse' is the wordplay.
'daughter' becomes 'd' (genealogical abbreviation).
'quietly' becomes 'p' (p for piano and quiet).
'interrupts' is an insertion indicator.
'pulse' becomes 'bean' (beans are a type of pulse).
'd'+'p'='dp'
'dp' going into 'bean' is 'BEDPAN'.
'with' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for bedpan that I've seen is " Hospital receptacle".)