A hand-held manual surgical instrument designed to manipulate the pulmonary tissue/surfaces of the lungs during a surgical intervention in the thorax. It typically consists of a large flat blunt blade (no sharp edges) at the distal end and a strong handle a...
A surgical instrument designed to be held by the surgeon or assistant to separate the margins of an abdominal incision, typically during deep surgery, to expose or access organs or tissues for examination or intervention. The instrument consists of a blunt-...
A hand-held manual surgical instrument designed for the temporary atraumatic separation and/or drawing aside of the margins of a sulcus or fissure of the brain, or margin of an incision of the brain, during neurosurgical procedures. It is typically made of ...
A hand-held manual surgical instrument designed to separate or draw aside the edges of an incision in the heart, various anatomical structures of the heart (e.g., an atrium or aortic valve), or the entire organ. It consists of a handle proximally and a wire...
A hand-held, manually-operated, surgical instrument intended to catch and pull, lift, or draw aside the wound margins of skin and thin or delicate tissues [e.g., dura mater (the outermost membrane that envelops the brain and spinal cord)] during a surgical ...