hook (redirected from fish hooks)

hook (hook)

1. a long, thin, curved instrument for traction or holding.

2. something with that shape.

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palate hook  one for raising the palate in posterior rhinoscopy.

Tyrrell's hook  a slender hook used in eye surgery.

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hook

1. metal instrument turned backwards on itself at one end.

2. the aggressive upward thrusting action of a cattle beast with its horns.

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hook bone

tuber coxae.

obstetric hook

see eyehooks.

ovariectomy hook

see spay hook (below).

spay hook

a small 6 inch blunt-pointed hook for exteriorizing a uterine horn during a spay operation in a cat or dog. See also covault spay hook and snook hook.