It is now that the double tenaculum (Fig. 61) is applied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

Catch: in Collembola, = tenaculum, q.v. Catenate: with longitudinal connected elevations like links in a chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

In like manner as is the tenaculum, the silk is attached to one edge of the wound, carried under the limb, and firmly secured to the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

Any small portions of cartilage remaining after this are sought for with the finger, and carefully removed by means of a scalpel and a tenaculum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

If found desirable to keep the edges of the wound apart, and no tenaculum to hand, the same end may be accomplished by means of a needle and silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference

A small, heavy-toothed saw; scissors, three scalpels-round-bladed, straight-bladed, scoop-bladed; the silver blade of a tongue depressor, a tenaculum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

If you see him very savagely cut up in "The Revolver," you will recognize the kindly hands which held the bistoury, scalpel, and tenaculum, and the gentleman who wept while he wounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference

Soft polyps should be drawn out with a toothed tenaculum as far as can be without risk of breaking them off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference

This cord is, sometimes, foolishly and uselessly detached from its adhesions, so far as we can effect it, and drawn forward with a tenaculum and divided.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

Again, the two ligatures may be applied, and the vessel divided between them; and finally the artery may be cut, then seized with a tenaculum and drawn out, and the ligature tied above the bleeding orifice.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference

In some cases he had seen the polyp was so difficult to get at or was situated so far back in the nose that it could not be reached by means of a tenaculum or scissors, or even the special knife devised for that purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference

It was a recognized procedure in those days (and is resorted to still), when all medical, electrical, and other remedial measures had failed to relieve a furious neuralgia, for the surgeon to cut down upon the nerve-trunk, free it from its surrounding attachments, and, slipping his tenaculum or finger under it, stretch the nerve with a considerable degree of force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preventable Diseases] Reference

A tenaculum -- and some buckskin slips for ligatures, completed my case of instruments for amputation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor"] Reference

To apply the immediate Ligature, sponge out the wound well; have the pressure on the artery slightly diminished, so as to permit the blood to flow; seize the artery either with a pair of forceps or the tenaculum; draw it out; and having passed the thread under the instrument, make first a loose knot, then direct the loop over the artery and tie it firmly twice, -- an assistant placing his finger on the first knot to prevent its slipping.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference

Mr Rivers, the tenaculum -- ease the tourniquet, now. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Percival Keene] Reference

"Open that case of instruments, and take out the tenaculum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil] Reference

Hold trachea with tenaculum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery] Reference