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A cutting instrument with two shearing blades used to cut tissue or material.
What are scissors?
100
The hinge point of an instrument.
What is the box lock?
100

An instrument used for retaining or holding back tissue that requires an assistant to operate.

What is a Hand-Held retractor?

100
A spoon-shaped instrument for scraping or cutting.
What is a curette?
100
A biting instrument used for cutting tough tissue or bone.
What is a rongeur?
200

A two-bladed, tweezer-type instrument for handing tissues and dressings.

What is thumb-forcep?

200

Small vertical or horizontal grooves on the edges or tips.

What is serrated?

200
An type of instrument capable of being placed into a fixed position.

What is self-retaining?

200
A hammer-like instrument used for striking objects.
What is a mallet?
200

A blade with a sharp edge used for cutting tissue?

What is a scalpel blade?

300

A surgical instrument used to clamp blood vessels to prevent or stop bleeding.

What is hemostatic forcep?

300
The working end of the instrument, the part that makes contact with the tissue.
What is the jaws?
300

An instrument used for retaining or holding back tissue to maximize surgical exposure.

What is a retractor?

300

An instrument with a sharp edge for lifting or scraping periosteum.

What is an elevator?

300
An occluding clamp with no teeth.
What is a babcock?
400

A device for holding or joining drapes together during a surgical procedure.

What is a towel clamp?

400
The "arms" of an instrument that run from the box lock to the finger rings.
What is the shanks?
400
Type of instrument that does not have a crushing or biting effect on tissue.
What is atraumatic?
400
An instrument with a single beveled cutting edge for cutting or chipping bone.
What is a chisel?
400

Name three cutting instruments.

scissors, chisels, currettes, osteotomes, rasps, rongeurs, saws, snares, biopsy forceps, trephines.

500
An instrument designed to hold needles used in suturing tissue.
What is a needle holder?
500
It is where the fingers are placed to control the operation of the jaws of an instrument.

What is the finger rings?

500
The part of an instrument located slightly above the finger rings on the shanks.  This locks the instrument in the closed position.

What is a Ratchet?

500
An instrument with a double-beveled cutting edge for cutting or marking bone.
What is an osteotome?
500

An instrument onto which a blade is attached, used for cutting tissue during a surgical procedure.

What is a scalpel handle?