Forceps is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FORCEPS in dictionary:

PLURAL NOUN:
• surgical pincers
NOUN:
• a pair of tongs used in surgery
• a pair of pincers or tweezers used in surgery or in a laboratory.
• an organ or structure resembling forceps, especially the cerci of an earwig.
• 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.
• The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig.
• an extractor consisting of a pair of pincers used in medical treatment (especially for the delivery of babies)
• a large pair of forceps with broad gripping parts, used to encircle a baby's head and assist in birth
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an instrument for seizing and holding objects

Words related to FORCEPS

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Words that contain FORCEPS

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How to use FORCEPS in a sentence

• The lower end of the severed nerve is then grasped firmly with the forceps, pulled downwards as far as possible, and then cut off.
• They simply brought forward the big pair of forceps and reached them toward the Dragon.
• Still holding fast to the forceps, the King and his army marched into the Valley, and away across it, and up the hills on the other side, not even stopping to take breath.
• The forward-grasping forceps are always so adjusted that the jaws open in an up-and-down direction.
• At the left is shown a handle-clamp for locking the forceps on a foreign body in the solution of certain rarely encountered mechanical problems.
• The stretching is here produced by the spring of the blades of the forceps and not by manual force.
• Spring-opposed forceps render any delicacy of touch impossible.
• The point is thus disengaged, and the shaft of the pin is brought parallel with that of the forceps, after which the point may be drawn into the tube mouth.
• The lips added to the side-curved forceps by my assistant Dr.
• The very best instrument for the purpose is the forceps devised by my assistant, Dr.
• That is, the staple may be turned over with the hook or rotation forceps and brought out with the points trailing.
• Small food masses often lodge above the foreign body and are best removed with forceps.
• The fold of the cricopharyngeus can be repressed posteriorward by the forceps which are then in position to grasp the object when it is found.
• The time would be long because the forceps permit the survival of some large-headed infants who otherwise would die.
• If the glass appear opaque, it should be flattened with the forceps.

Similar words containing FORCEP without suffix s

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