A sterile, rigid surgical instrument designed to be introduced through an endoscope (e.g., laparoscope, hysteroscope) or laparoscopic port, to mechanically cut tissues during an endoscopic/laparoscopic surgical procedure. It is a hand-held device typically ...
A heavy-duty, hand-held manual surgical instrument with sturdy handles and blade-like jaws designed to cut orthopaedic wires, cerclages, and small diameter pins or bolts. It has a scissors-like lever action with straight or curved handles and is made of hig...
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 intende...
A sterile, 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 ...
A sterile, rigid surgical instrument designed to be introduced through a laparoscope primarily for grasping and manipulating tissues during a laparoscopic surgical procedure. It is a hand-held device typically with scissors-like handles that may include a r...
A hand-held manual ophthalmic surgical instrument intended to be used to cut intraocular tissue of the anterior segment (e.g., iris). It comprises two pivoted blades which cut with a shearing action directly adjacent to the handles (i.e., not a probe-like d...
A sterile, hand-held device designed specifically for cutting the nails of a patient. It is comprised of two pivoted blades with finger and thumb ring-handles, which cut the nails with a shearing action (i.e., the fine blades cut when the sharpened edges pa...
An ophthalmic surgical instrument designed to cut either anterior or posterior segment tissue during eye surgery. It is typically: 1) two pivoted blades that are usually provided with a finger and thumb ring-handle and which cut with a shearing action (i.e....
A hand-held surgical instrument designed for cutting sutures using a mechanical action. It typically has a protected scalpel-like blade or a scissors-like cutting end, and a proximal manual actuator. This is a single-use device.
A sterile hand-held manual surgical instrument designed to cut tissues during a gynaecological surgical procedure; it is not primarily intended for obstetric use. It is comprised of two pivoted shearing blades with finger and thumb ring-handles (i.e., not p...
A hand-held, manual, obstetrical, surgical instrument intended to cut the outlet of the vagina in childbirth so as to facilitate the birth of the child (also known as perineotomy). It comprises two pivoted blades that are usually provided with a finger and ...
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, ophthalmic surgical instrument intended to be used to cut the conjunctiva and Tenon’s capsule on the eye surface to access the sclera. It comprises two pivoted blades which cut with a shearing action directly adjacent to the handles (th...
A hand-held manual surgical instrument designed specifically to cut the umbilical cord after birth. 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 t...
A rigid surgical instrument designed to be introduced through a laparoscope primarily for grasping and manipulating tissues during a laparoscopic surgical procedure. It is a hand-held device typically with scissors-like handles that may include a ratchet me...
A hand-held, manual, open-surgery instrument with sturdy handles and blade-like jaws designed to distract (force apart) two bone surfaces to enable a surgical procedure, e.g., two vertebrae during a spinal surgical intervention. It has a scissors-like lever...
A hand-held manual surgical instrument with sturdy handles and blade-like jaws designed to distract (force apart) two bone surfaces to enable a surgical procedure, e.g., two vertebrae during a spinal surgical intervention. It has a scissors-like lever actio...
A sterile, hand-held manual instrument designed to cut the thread(s) of an in situ intrauterine device (IUD) to an appropriate length for extraction of the device. It is comprised of two pivoted blades which cut with a shearing action, operated using finger...