forceps

Example Sentences

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Evidence suggests fewer epidurals might mean fewer births using instruments like forceps and ventouse vacuum suction, says NICE.

From BBC

It specifically would prohibit doctors from using forceps or similar instruments on a live fetus to remove it from the womb in pieces.

From Seattle Times

Both parents died when she was a child, and her brother, Jesús, was quadriplegic from a forceps injury at birth.

From New York Times

Metal forceps were left inside a patient in a so-called never event at a Worcestershire hospital.

From BBC

You couldn’t see her face or the face of the doctor whose hands came into the frame holding forceps and a cutting tool as he inserted them into the woman’s womb.

From Los Angeles Times