FORCEPS

(Lat.), n. m. and f. Fo=r's esps(keps). Gen., for'cipis; pi., -es. From for muni. anything hot, and capere, to seize. Gr.. jrupaypa. Fr., /. Ger., Zange. lt.,forcipe. Sp.,/. 1. Any instrument for seizing an object; originally a pair of tongs. Used as an English word, it is always singular unle more than one instrument is meant; hence it is proper to say af. (not a pair off.). 2. Of Reil (of Burdach, forcipes), certain bundles of fibres extending from the splenium backward into the occipital lobes. [I, 6 (K).] 3. In entomology, an appendage or a mandible in the form of a pair of pinchers. Aide-f. (Fr.). See the major list. Alligator (-jaw) f. A delicate f., straight or curved, with wide-opening jaws, for use in narrow canals. [E.] Angular f. A f. bent at an angle, for introduction into fistula?, etc. [a, 34.] Ante ligature f. A spring, cro -action f. for closing an artery, [a. 34.] Anterior f. of the corpus callosum. See F. minor corp or is callosi. Artery f. A spring-catch or slide-catch spring f., or single-jointed pinion-catch f. for holding an artery, [a, 34.] Audibert's obstetrical f. A f. having long oval handles with obstetrical data engraved on their inner faces, [a, 34.] Auricular f. An instrument with long, thin blades terminating in a small ring and attached to the handles at an obtuse angle. It is used for removing small foreign bodies from the auditory canal. [F.] Axial polypus f. A bent-handled f. having long blades that open widely with but moderate expansion O, no; O, not; O>, whole; Th, thin; Th", the; IT, like oo in too; 206 [s. 91]