Forceps

Standing in front and taking hold of the clitoris with a broad-mouthed forceps in his left hand, the surgeon stretches it outward, while with the right hand, he cuts it off at the point next to the pincers of the forceps.

By 4pm, Lucy, 28, had started pushing, which went on for an hour and a half, but, between contractions, her baby's head was going back in and she was given three options – ventouse (vacuum cup), forceps or Caesarean.

If you still can’t reach it then see your doctor, who can use a speculum and forceps to remove it.

It was Dr Abū al-Qāsim Khalaf ibn al-‘Abbās al-Zahrāwī, known as the ‘father of surgery’, who invented surgical tools that are still used today such as syringes, forceps, bone saws and plaster casts.

But while she was being delivered with forceps and a suction device, Olivia suffered multiple skull fractures, as well as cuts, bruising and swelling to her face.

Doctors used forceps to carefully remove the piece from her limbus.

Prophylactic antibiotics may help when women who are giving birth require the aid of forceps or vacuum extraction.

Insert the boat into the bottle stern first, using a bent metal coat hanger or a surgeon’s tool called polypus forceps.

Looks like a forceps baby to me.

Medical intervention implies caesarean section, or forceps or vacuum to deliver the baby, or using hormones to start or speed the labour.

Parents have previously said they were pressured into natural births in midwife-supervised units, claiming that a caesarean or forceps-assisted deliveries would have prevented brain damage.

Decompression of the calvarium can be accomplished by incision and suction of the contents, or by using forceps.

Other terms include "wortlore" (botany), "welkinfire" (meteor) and "nipperlings" (forceps).

Specific surgical instruments used in a laparoscopic surgery include: forceps, scissors, probes, dissectors, hooks, retractors and more.

The lithotomy position was not used until the advent of forceps in the seventeenth century and since then childbirth has progressively moved from a woman supported experience in the home to a medical intervention within the hospital.

There is also a high incidence of hemiplegia during pregnancy and experts believe that this may be related to either a traumatic delivery, use of forceps or some event which causes brain injury.

When fishing with bait, the angler will want to have a disgorger ; perch are notorious for swallowing the hook, and will need aid of a disgorger or forceps for unhooking.