hemostats
Surgical clamping instruments
Hemostats are surgical clamps used to control bleeding by compressing blood vessels.
They lock in place with ratcheted handles, freeing the surgeon's hands.
Outside the operating room, hemostats serve as precision gripping tools—hobbyists use them for jewelry making, fly tying, or holding small parts: She clamped the wire with a hemostat while the glue dried.
Medical grasping instrument
- clampsFastening grip devices
- scissorsPivoted twin-blade cutter
- scalpelPrecise surgical knife
- retractorTool exposing surgical field
suture · tweezers · probe · curette · catheter · syringe · speculum · dilator
Liquid solidifying into mass
- hemorrhageProfuse discharge of blood
- clottingBlood solidifying process
- blood flowMovement through vessels
- vasoconstrictionArterial walls contracting inward
platelets · fibrin · stasis · arterial bleeding · pressure · compression · stanching · blood loss
Free from microorganisms
- incisionControlled cut into tissue
- suturingClosing wounds with thread
- gauzeOpen-weave medical fabric
- anesthesiaInduced loss of feeling
operating · dissection · cauterization · ligature · antiseptic · clamping · wound closure · bleeding control
forceps
Medical grasping instrument
retractor · suture · tweezers · probe · curette · catheter · syringe · speculum · dilator · trocar
coagulation
Liquid solidifying into mass
- hemorrhageProfuse discharge of blood
- clottingBlood solidifying process
- blood flowMovement through vessels
vasoconstriction · platelets · fibrin · stasis · arterial bleeding · pressure · compression · stanching · blood loss · trauma response
sterile
Free from microorganisms
anesthesia · operating · dissection · cauterization · ligature · antiseptic · clamping · wound closure · bleeding control · surgical tray
clamp
Device for holding tight
lock · grasp · secure · tighten · hold · serration · ratchet · tension · occlusion · crush
- medical equipmentstethoscope, AED, syringe, hospital bed, surgical table
- grippersclaw, claws, pincer, pincers, gripper
- medical suppliesbandage, gauze, latex gloves, syringe, nitrile gloves
- surgical suppliesscalpels, scalpel, forceps, clamps, retractors
- vet toolsstethoscope, scalpel, syringe, needle, forceps
- body mod suppliestattoo machine, tattoo gun, tattoo needle, tattoo needles, piercing needle
hemostatsanticoagulants
Clot-preventing medications
blood thinners · vasodilators · thrombolytics · heparin · warfarin
hemostatsscissors
Pivoted twin-blade cutter
surgical scissors · scalpels · scalpel · lancets · dissectors
hemostatsscalpel
Precise surgical knife
lancet · cannula · fleam · anticoagulants · blood thinners