Pertaining to a dental instrument used to extract (pull out) teeth.

Instruments used by physicians when assistance is needed to move the baby through the birth canal. Forceps are designed to fit the baby's head and the mother's pelvis.

A medical instrument of which there are many varieties which consists of two handles and two flat sides. They are sometimes used to deliver a baby, especially when speed is necessary to overcome fetal distress, or dystocia. A forceps delivery will leave superficial marks on the baby's head and face which will disappear in a few days.

tong-like device used to assist in delivery

instruments resembling tweezers that are used to handle objects or tissue during surgery

A pincer like instrument designed to grasp an object so that it can be held firm or pulled.

A surgical tool that looks like a pair of salad servers, used to gently ease your baby's head down the birth canal.

An instrument to grasp a structure, for compression or traction. (L. formus, hot + ceps, to take).

An instrument resembling a pair of pincers or tongs, used for grasping, manipulating, or extracting.

Latin = tongs.

A surgical instrument which has two handles or sides attached to a dull blade. The handles may be jointed at one end like a tweezer or the two sides may be separate and drawn together in use. They are used to grasp, handle, pull, compress or join tissue, or supplies.

An obstetrical instrument that fits around the baby's head to guide the baby's head through the birth canal is called forceps and is used during delivery and is only occasionally used.

Instruments used while the mother is pushing to assist the baby under the pubic bone or through the lower part of the birth canal.

An instrument used to aid in vaginal delivery.

Instrument used for removing teeth.

an extractor consisting of a pair of pincers used in medical treatment (especially for the delivery of babies)

an instrument designed to aid in the delivery of the fetus by applying traction to the fetal head

a pliers-like instrument which relies on mechanical action between its jaws to grasp, clamp and constrict vessels or tissue

a spoon-shaped device that resembles a set of salad tongs

L. a pair of tongs. U-shaped, or pincer-like appearance of forceps major and forceps minor of the corpus callosum.

Special instruments placed around the baby's head to help guide it out of the birth canal during delivery.

Used to help delivery of the baby. They fit either side of the baby’s head and are used to ease the baby down the birth canal.

a tong-like instrument for holding or grasping skin, dressings, or instruments. Also used as tweezers for removing splinters and barbs.

A metal instrument used to extract babies from the vaginal canal.

A device that can be placed on a baby's head to help delivery the head.

Obstetrics Forceps are used to assist birth of the fetal head. Forceps are a two-bladed instrument that could be compared to a pair of kitchen tongs in design but have the additional feature of two blades that are easily taken apart to facilitate placement on the baby within the birth canal.

Surgical instrument used for grasping or compressing tissue.

Tool with two blades and a handle used for handling tissue or dressings

Instruments which are interested into the vagina and carefully placed around the baby's head or buttocks to assist delivery.

A pliers-like tool from the medical industry that locks closed with a ratchet-locking action. It is often used for crimping barbs on hooks and for removing flies from the mouths of fish; also called "hemostats."

hand operated medical instrument widely used in fly-fishing to remove flies from the jaws of a hooked fish. Have plier-like jaws with locking clips so that once they are clamped to the hook, they stay there until you release them.

An instrument resembling tweezers that is used to grasp objects within the urine canal or other parts of the body.

Instrument used for removal of teeth

pincerlike grasping or clasping organ; like tongs

An instrument with two blades and a handle used for handling, grasping, or compressing. Many types of forceps are employed in medicine, including the alligator forceps (an angled instrument with jaws at the end), tissue forceps (a form of tweezer), hemostatic forceps (also simply called a hemostat, to clamp a bleeding vessel), mosquito forceps (a small hemostat) and obstetrical forceps (to aid in delivering a baby). See the entire definition of Forceps

dissection or surgical equipment used to grasp tissues of the body

Tong-shaped instruments that are inserted into the vagina and placed around the babyâ€(tm)s head to ease it out of the birth canal during childbirth.

A pair of hollow blades, rather like large salad servers, which are placed either side of the baby's head to assist with the birth. When this happens, it is known as a forceps delivery.

An instrument resembling a pair of tongs, used for grasping, compressing, manipulating, or extracting tissue or specific structures.

A tong-like instrument which may be placed around the baby's head to help guide it out of the birth canal during delivery.

Forceps are a hand-held instrument used for grasping and holding objects, similar in concept to tongs, tweezers or pincers.