A hand-held, non-self-retaining surgical instrument intended to be used for retracting a nerve, tendon, or blood vessel to separate it from the surrounding tissue primarily to allow access to other tissues during a surgical intervention. It is a shaft-like ...
A hand-held, surgical instrument used for hooking the spermatic cord (the cord-like structure consisting of the vas deferens and its accompanying arteries, veins, nerves and lymphatic vessels) in order to grasp it during a surgical procedure, e.g., a vasect...