Crossword-Solution: TENACULUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tenaculum | n. | An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like. |
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| Surgeon's hook | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MEECAZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TENACULUM (5)
This cord is, sometimes, foolishly and uselessly detached from its adhesions, so far as we can effect it, and drawn forward with a tenaculum and divided.
Headlight Sandbag Scalpel Hemostats Small retractors Tenaculum Tracheotomic cannulae (proper kind) Long.
Nasal polyps were to be grasped with a sharp tenaculum, _cum tenacillis acutis_, and either wholly or partially extracted.
Soft polyps should be drawn out with a toothed tenaculum as far as can be without risk of breaking them off.
They are to be seen in Gurlt's "History of Surgery." In some cases he had seen the polyp was so difficult to get at or was situated so far back in the nose that it could not be reached by means of a tenaculum or scissors, or even the special knife devised for that purpose.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1999).