| dental forceps | <dentistry> Forceps used to luxate teeth and remove them from the alveolus. Synonym: extracting forceps. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| dressing forceps | A forceps for general use in dressing wounds, removing fragments of necrosed tissue, small foreign bodies, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| obstetrical forceps | An instrument with two blades and a handle designed to aid in the vaginal delivery of a baby. (12 Dec 1998) |
| O'Hara forceps | Two slender clamp forceps's held together by a serrefine, once used in intestinal anastomosis; now obsolete. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Tarnier's forceps | A type of axis-traction forceps. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tenaculum forceps | A forceps with jaws armed each with a sharp, straight hook like a tenaculum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thumb forceps | A spring forceps used by compression with thumb and forefinger. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tubular forceps | A long slender forceps intended for use through a cannula or other tubular instrument. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Tucker-McLean forceps | A type of axis-traction forceps. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Evans forceps | A thumb forceps with points designed to resemble a needle holder, used to grasp curved needles during various suture procedures. (05 Mar 2000) |
| jeweller's forceps | A small thumb forceps with very fine pointed blades, used to grasp tissues in microsurgical procedures. (05 Mar 2000) |
| extracting forceps | <dentistry> Forceps used to luxate teeth and remove them from the alveolus. Synonym: extracting forceps. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kjelland's forceps | <instrument, obstetrics> An obstetrical forceps having a sliding lock, and little pelvic curve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lahey forceps | Thyroid forceps used to deliver the uterus in vaginohysterectomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Laplace's forceps | A forceps for approximating intestines during surgical anastomosis. (05 Mar 2000) |