tenaculum

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A medical instrument consisting of a sharp hook attached to a handle; used mainly for taking up arteries and the like.
    — 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.
  2. A hapteron or holdfast.

词形变化

tenacula plural tenaculums plural

词源

From Latin tenaculum.
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