tenaculum

[tĕ-nak´u-lum]

a sharp hooklike surgical instrument with two or more prongs, used for grasping and holding tissues or a part.

Tenaculum. From Dorland's, 2000.

te·nac·u·lum

, pl.

te·nac·u·la

(tĕ-nak'yū-lŭm, -lă),

A surgical clamp designed to hold or grasp tissue during dissection, commonly used to grasp the cervix.

[L. a holder, fr. teneo, to hold]

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tenaculum

(tə-năk′yə-ləm)

n. pl. tenacu·la (-lə)

A long-handled, slender, hooked instrument for lifting and holding parts, such as blood vessels, during surgery.

tenaculum

Anatomy
A fibrotendinous component of a flexor or extensor retinaculum.

Surgery
A thin, hooked clamp used to retract tissues away from an operative field, or to grasp tissue to hold it in place.

tenaculum

Surgical anatomy A fibrotendinous component of a flexor or extensor retinaculum Surgery A thin hooked clamp used to retract tissues away from an operative field

te·nac·u·lum

, pl. tenacula (tĕ-nak'yū-lŭm, -lă)

A surgical clamp designed to hold or grasp tissue during dissection.

[L. a holder, fr. teneo, to hold]

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