Surgical Instruments
The expression surgical instrumentation is somewhat interchangeably used with surgical instruments, but its meaning in medical jargon is really the activity of providing assistance to a surgeon with the proper handling of surgical instruments during an operation, by a specialized professional, usually a surgical.
Surgical instruments are tools or devices that perform such functions as
cutting, dissecting, grasping, holding, retracting, or suturing.
A surgical instrument is a specially designed tool or device for
performing specific actions of carrying out desired effects during a surgery or
operation, such as modifying biological tissue, or to provide access for
viewing it. Over time, many different kinds of surgical instruments and tools
have been invented. Some surgical instruments are designed for general use in
surgery, while others are designed for a specific procedure or surgery.
Accordingly, the nomenclature of surgical instruments follows certain patterns,
such as a description of the action it performs (for example, scalpel,
hemostat), the name of its inventor(s)
For example, the Kocher forceps,
[1] A compound scientific name related to the kind of surgery
for example, a
tracheotome is a tool used to perform a tracheotomy.
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