Crossword-Solution: FORCEPS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Forceps | n. | A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc. |
| Forceps | n. | The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “FORCEPS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Grasping pair | 1 answer |
| surgical pincers | 1 answer |
| Surgical tool used for grasping or holding objects | 1 answer |
| Tool used in some deliveries | 1 answer |
| Surgical tongs | 1 answer |
| Surgical instrument with thumbholes | 1 answer |
| Surgical gripper | 1 answer |
| Surgeon's pincers | 1 answer |
| Medical pincers | 1 answer |
| CAUDAL appendage (of insects) | 1 answer |
| Aid in deliveries | 1 answer |
| Some surgical tools | 2 answers |
| Medical tool | 3 answers |
| Delivery aid | 4 answers |
| Nippers | 5 answers |
| Pincers | 8 answers |
| tongs | 9 answers |
| Surgical tool | 9 answers |
| pliers | 10 answers |
| Surgeon's tool | 10 answers |
| AN EXTRACTOR CONSISTING OF A PAIR OF PINCERS USED IN MEDICAL TREATMENT | 11 answers |
| extractor | 13 answers |
| Tool. | 63 answers |
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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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FORCEPS (5)
Then we close the forceps, and that breaks right through the alveolus--that's the part of the socket in the jaw, you understand.” At another moment he told her of his one unsatisfied desire.
But if this power has cared for the bee so as to furnish it with its honey bag and its collecting forceps, and for the lowly seed so as to have a thousand devices by which it reaches a congenial soil, then is it conceivable that we, the highest product of all, are overlooked? It is NOT conceivable.
Then he cleared all the little instruments out of his pocket-case--the scissors, the forceps, the bistouries, the lancets--and he laid them all out beside the stethoscope, to make as good a show as possible.
These forceps were acted upon by an electric engine of immense power, by which they could be shut, opened, projected, withdrawn, or turned and twisted.
Some day, when I meet a dentist with a pair of forceps, I'm going to have it pulled." "What, your tooth?" asked Dorothy.
Quotes with FORCEPS (3)
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps …
For all her culture's attention to the physical, it seemingly has little to salve the creatural anguish of losing someone else's body, their touch, their heat, their oceanic heart... she doesn't want another body, she wants the body she loved, the forceps scar across his cheek that she traced with her hand, his penis, its elegant sweep to the side, the preternaturally soft skin. One wants what one has loved, not the idea of love.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1975–2023).