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forceps

fawr seps

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

  • The doctor took a pair of forceps in his hand.
  • At sight of the forceps, several women in the audience of 1,500, gathered around multiple sets, seemed about to faint.
  • Still, it was a simple though delicate procedure to work his cupped forceps around so that he got almost all of the polyp at one snip.
Quotes

  • Stephen Robinson in Independent Online
    There won't be any yanking going on at all,Robinson said. "It will be a gentle pull with my hand. If that doesn't work, I have some forceps. I will give it a slightly more than gentle pull. If that doesn't work, I saw it off with a...
  • Vito Fossella in The Brooklyn Graphic
    The [partial-birth/IDX] procedure involves a doctor grabbing the legs of the fetus with forceps and dragging the body, except for the head, into the birth canal,said Fossella. "The doctor then inserts scissors into the back of the skull of...
  • Anthony Kennedy in Fresno Bee (registration)
    Physicians reach into the cervix with forceps and crush the fetus' skull,Kennedy wrote in his painstakingly detailed opinion. "Others continue to pull the fetus out of the woman until it disarticulates at the neck, in effect decapitating...

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