forceps

• She rails against most interventions -- forceps, vacuum extraction, C-section and episiotomy -- despite experiencing the agony of a torn perineum during the birth of her son. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• The ramus was then seized by a strong pair of tooth-forceps, and notwithstanding strong posterior attachments, was drawn outwards, its muscular connections divided and turned out entire. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
• Heurteloup's and Sir B. C. Brodie's._--In this, after the instrument is fairly entered, its handle is elevated, thus depressing the curved extremity, the forceps are then opened, and, by being kept as low as possible in the bladder, it is hoped that the calculus will fall into the opened blades by its own weight. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
• It is then known that the forceps are at the tube mouth, and the endoscopist has but to gauge the distance from this to the foreign body. —  Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
• As the first grasp of the forceps is the best, it should be well planned beforehand so as to seize the proper part of the intruder 7. —  Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery

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