forceps

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She suffered a third-degree tear during a forceps delivery and her first episode of incontinence soon afterwards - but was discharged home without support.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Never mind all the newborns rolled out and swaddled like Christmas tamales, or the forceps deliveries that resemble tooth extractions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

Instead, treatment involves removing the visible eggs and larvae from the wound with forceps and applying a larvae-targeting pesticide.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2025

A cutdown involves an incision, then the use of forceps to pull tissue away from an interior vein.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024

When the operation was half over, he had come out into the ante-room, grinning and waving one tonsil in a pair of forceps.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey