A hand-held, manual surgical instrument designed to cut a blood vessel (i.e., to cut over a blood vessel or cut longitudinally to split it open) during open vascular surgery; it is not intended for endoscopic use. Often referred to as micro-scissors, it is ...
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 surgical instrument used to facilitate grasping, manipulation, compression or joining of tissue during dissection and/or autopsy. It typically has two main designs: 1) a self-retaining, scissors-like design with ring handles with the working end having a ...
A general-purpose ear/nose/throat (ENT) surgical instrument designed to facilitate the grasping, holding, or manipulation of anatomical structures (e.g., trachea, ear) or devices (e.g., cochlear implant electrode array) during ENT procedures. It typically h...
A hand-held manual surgical instrument designed to apply or manipulate a dressing on tissue during a surgical intervention. It typically has two main designs: 1) a self-retaining, scissors-like design with ring handles with the working end having a variety ...
A delicate and light hand-held manual surgical instrument designed to constrict small blood vessels during surgery to prevent bleeding. It typically consists of a straight or curved scissors-like instrument, made of stainless steel, with grooved or serrated...