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FORCEPS

Forceps is a general name for a two-bladed instrument on the principle of pincers or tongs, used for seizing and holding, and for extracting objects, which it would be impracticable thus to treat with the fingers. Such instruments are used by watchmakers and jewellers in delicate operations, by dentists in forcibly extracting teeth, for grasping and holding parts in dissection, for extracting any tiling from a wound, taking up an artery, and by accoucheurs.
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