forceps
Delivery room tool
Forceps are a hinged instrument resembling scissors or tongs, used for grasping, holding, or extracting.
The term appears most often in medical contexts—obstetric forceps assist difficult births, surgical forceps grip tissue during operations.
The word is plural in form but often treated as singular: a forceps, the forceps was sterilized.
Seize or understand
- clampDevice for holding tight
- pinchSqueeze with fingertips
- holdMaintain in grasp
- serratedHaving toothlike projections
jaws · tips · locking · ratchet · tension · squeeze · secure · delicate
Clamp stopping vessel flow
- clampDevice for holding tight
- retractorTool exposing surgical field
- scalpelPrecise surgical knife
- scissorsPivoted twin-blade cutter
speculum · suture · probe · curette · dilator · trocar · lancet · dissection
Conveyance of goods
- birthComing into the world
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- midwifeChildbirth assistance professional
- obstetricianChildbirth physician
contractions · episiotomy · vaginal · newborn · breech · fetus · cranial · rotation
grasp
Seize or understand
serrated · jaws · tips · locking · ratchet · tension · squeeze · secure · delicate · firm
hemostat
Clamp stopping vessel flow
scissors · speculum · suture · probe · curette · dilator · trocar · lancet · dissection · biopsy
delivery
Conveyance of goods
- birthComing into the world
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- midwifeChildbirth assistance professional
obstetrician · contractions · episiotomy · vaginal · newborn · breech · fetus · cranial · rotation · traction
specimen
Individual for examination
- petriLaboratory dish name
- microscopeInstrument for viewing minute objects
- slideSmooth continuous movement
culture · sample · beaker · vial · dissection · pipette · crucible · coverslip · histology · autopsy
extraction
Act of removing
premolar · canine · root · impaction · wisdom · decayed · socket · dentist · oral · maxillary
- birth suppliesfetal monitor, Doppler, birth ball, birth pool, birthing pool
- lab suppliesbeakers, beaker, test tubes, test tube, pipettes
- military medicinecombat medics, combat medic, field hospitals, army surgeon, combat medicine
- old medicinebloodletting, leeches, leech therapy, leeching, cupping
- electrosurgeryelectrosurgery, cautery, cauterization, electrocoagulation, monopolar
- Dentistdentist, dental floss, dental hygienist, cavity filling, cavity
forcepsscalpel
Precise surgical knife
scissors · blade · lancet · surgical knife · shears
- forced outRemoved against one's wishes
- forced smileInsincere facial expression
- forced entryIllegal building intrusion
- forced prostitutionCoerced commercial sexual exploitation
- forced-air heatingDuctwork-distributed furnace warmth
- forced laborCompelled toil, no consent
forced, forceful, enforce, reinforce, enforced, reinforced, enforcement, reinforcement, enforces