A piece of exercise equipment designed primarily to increase muscle strength especially of the upper body by repetitive lifting and lowering with the hands and arms. It may be one of several types of hand-held weights or masses that are not attached to anot...
A sterile flexible container used to temporarily isolate a patient body part/organ during a surgical procedure, typically to segregate it from the surgical site. The device may be used to: 1) cover a dirty body part (e.g., hand/foot) to prevent cross-contam...
A hand-held manual surgical instrument designed to cut/dissect a variety of tissues during open surgery and having no dedication to a specific anatomy or clinical use; it might in addition be intended for cutting materials associated with surgery (e.g., sut...
A non-dedicated, hand-held manual surgical instrument designed to cut a variety of tissues during open surgery; it is not dedicated to surgery at a specific anatomy/body orifice nor does it have a single clinical intended use. It might in addition be intend...
A hand-held surgical instrument, usually spoon-shaped or rounded at the working end, used to separate a soft tissue or body structure from another. It is used in general or plastic surgery and is usually designed with a handle which continues into a shaft t...
A rigid plastic or metal tube that is cone-shaped (i.e., it tapers down from a standard instrument fitting size to a small opening) and is either hand-held and manually inserted, or fitted onto a compatible otoscope, and then inserted into the ear canal to ...
A hand-held tubular surgical device designed to simultaneously place, angle, and guide a rotating surgical drill on hard tissue (e.g., bone), and to protect the surrounding soft tissue while the drill is in operation. It may have serrations at its distal en...
A hand-held manual surgical instrument designed to strike a surface or another device (e.g., a surgical chisel, gouge, driver) to drive it during a surgical intervention. It is available in a variety of designs and materials; the shaft is typically made of ...
A hand-held dental instrument used to cut oral tissue during a dental surgical procedure. It comprises two pivoted blades that are usually provided with a finger and thumb ring-handle and which cut with a shearing action (i.e., the blades cut as the sharpen...
A hand-held manual surgical instrument designed to cut/dissect a variety of tissues during open surgery and having no dedication to a specific anatomy or clinical use; it might in addition be intended for cutting materials associated with surgery (e.g., sut...
A hand-held, manual, surgical instrument used to cut tissue during ear/nose/throat (ENT) or plastic surgery in or on the nose and its associated structures. It comprises two pivoted blades that are usually provided with a finger and thumb ring-handle and wh...
A hand-held tubular surgical device designed to simultaneously place, angle, and guide a rotating surgical drill on hard tissue (e.g., bone), and to protect the surrounding soft tissue while the drill is in operation. It may have serrations at its distal en...
A hand-held manual surgical instrument designed to cut tissue (e.g., dura mater, neural soft-tissue) during neurosurgery. It comprises two hinged blades of micro design that cut with a shearing action (i.e., the blades cut as the sharpened edges pass one an...
A hand-held surgical instrument used during surgery to cut suture or ligature material, i.e., to divide lengths or remove excessive/unwanted ends. It comprises two pivoted blades that are usually provided with a finger and thumb ring-handle and which cut wi...
A hand-held, manual, ophthalmic surgical instrument intended to be used to cut corneal tissue (e.g., during cataract extraction surgery, corneal transplant surgery). It comprises two pivoted blades that are usually provided with a finger and thumb ring-hand...
A hand-held, manual, ophthalmic surgical instrument intended to be used to cut corneal tissue (e.g., during cataract extraction surgery, corneal transplant surgery). It comprises two pivoted blades that are usually provided with a finger and thumb ring-hand...
A hand-held ophthalmic surgical instrument used to cut suture during eye surgery. It comprises two pivoted blades that are usually provided with a finger and thumb ring-handle and which cut with a shearing action (i.e., the fine blades cut as the sharpened ...
A hand-held surgical instrument used to create an indentation or enlarge a pre-drilled pilot hole in a bone that will enable the surgeon to begin threading a bone screw or place another form of anchoring device. This device, commonly known as a bone notcher...
A hand-held dental instrument designed to cut metal bands. It comprises two pivoted blades that are usually provided with a finger and thumb ring-handle and which cut with a shearing action (i.e., the blades cut as the sharpened edges pass one another as th...
A semi-rigid or rigid, plastic or metal tube that is cone-shaped (i.e., it tapers down from a standard instrument fitting size to a small opening) and is either hand-held and manually inserted, or fitted onto a compatible otoscope, and then inserted into th...
A dedicated ophthalmic surgical instrument intended to be used explicitly for the temporary mechanical retraction/dilatation of intraocular tissues (e.g., iris) during ophthalmic surgery. It is typically a small hook-like device which may include a retentio...
A hand-held manual surgical instrument designed to extract another orthopaedic instrument (e.g., instrument sleeve/guide) from a patient’s body during an orthopaedic surgical procedure. It is a robust instrument intended to clamp to the device intended to b...
A hand-held manual device intended to dispense a two-component dental material (e.g., impression material) [not included] from a cartridge directly into the mouth or into another device (e.g., impression tray). It is typically a pistol-like device with a ca...
A hand-held, manual, ophthalmic surgical instrument intended to be used to cut the muscles of the eye during strabismus surgery. It comprises two pivoted blades that usually have finger and thumb ring-handles, and which cut with a shearing action (i.e., the...
A hand-held manual surgical instrument designed to impart force on another instrument or directly on a bone fixation nail to insert the nail into tissue (i.e., to drive the nail into the intramedullary canal). It is typically made of high-grade stainless st...
A hand-held, manual, ophthalmic surgical instrument intended to be used to cut the muscles of the eye during strabismus surgery. It comprises two pivoted blades that usually have finger and thumb ring-handles, and which cut with a shearing action (i.e., the...
A hand-held surgical instrument designed to impart force on a bone staple, or on another instrument, to insert the bone staple typically into fractured bone. The distal end is typically shaped to mate with the bone staple. The proximal end is designed to ab...
An assembly of devices designed to apply electrical stimuli in one peripheral region of the body while the response is monitored in another peripheral region. It typically consists of external electrodes (e.g., hand-held bipolar or ring electrodes) or needl...
A hand-held surgical instrument used to cut tissue during eye surgery involving enucleation of the eye and/or its related structures (i.e., the removal of the eyeball to, e.g., remove a malignant tumour or to relieve intolerable pain in a blind eye). It com...
A hand-held surgical instrument used to cut tonsil tissue during ear/nose/throat (ENT) surgery. It comprises two pivoted blades that are usually provided with a finger and thumb ring-handle and which cut with a shearing action (i.e., the blades cut as the s...