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retractor
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who, or that which, retracts. 2 In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. 3 A surgical instrument used to hold apart the edges of an incision or wound. 4 (context chess English) A chess puzzle in which ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Retractor \Re*tract"or\ (r[-e]*tr[=a]kt"[~e]r), n. One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. (Surg.) An instrument for holding apart the edges of a wound during ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Retractor may refer to: Retractor (medical) , a medical instrument Retractor (memory) , a person Retractor (chess) , type of a chess problem Retractor muscles in zoology
Usage examples of retractor.
The sternal retractor, the scalpels, the hemostats, the table, the floor, all covered in an unbelievable amount of dried blood.
His eyes were held open with lid retractors, and the eyes themselves were fixated with limbal sutures.
The devices available to Kraft on the sampler tray have gone unchanged for a hundred years: knives, scissors, needles, thread, forceps, retractors, the all-important hemostat.
As internal organs were sutured back together, as muscles were mended, and cells destroyed in the tedious process, Digen, whose only responsibility was to stand perfectly still, pulling on a retractor at a steady rate, drifted on her selyn field inexorably up into hyperconsciousness, snapping rudely back down to duoconsciousness every time Thornton attacked a high selyn-field zone.
Braids squeezed the utensil, causing the retractors to widen and the tines to plunge through.
Metal retractors had been set, spreading the edges of the wound apart.
She had removed the retractors, cleaned and dressed the wound as best she could.
Loveday snapped the retractors together viciously as Staff came back, tore off her gown and mask and cap, pinned on the small starched and frilled headdress the sisters of the Royal City were privileged to wear, and with a modicum of words as she handed over the keys, went off duty.
To one sitte there lay the grim saws, retractors, tenacula, scalpels, bistouries (sharp and blunt-pointed), forceps, trephines, single-edged amputating knives and catlings, arranged with loving care by Poll and her friend the bosun's wife's sister, both of whom wore starched aprons, bibs and sleeves, and white caps.
To one sitte there lay the grim saws, retractors, tenacula, scalpels, bistouries (sharp and blunt-pointed), forceps, trephines, single-edged amputating knives and catlings, arranged with loving care by Poll and her friend the bosun’s wife’s sister, both of whom wore starched aprons, bibs and sleeves, and white caps.
An array of grim saws, retractors, scalpels, forceps, trephines, catlings and other mysterious torture instruments were arranged with loving care by Mrs.
This was the first time Stephen had been aboard the Franklin for any length of time since the earlier critical days, when his horizon was almost entirely bounded by the walls of his operating and dressing stations - blood and bones, splints, lint, tow and bandages, saws, retractors, artery-hooks - and he had had little time to see her as a ship, to see her from within.
Kibler pushed the rubber cannula into the left lateral ventricle, the cavity in the center of the left half of the brain, while Kat held the incision open with a small retractor.
Handsomely with the retractor, M’Alister: a couple of pledgets, and you may begin to sew.
Handsomely with the retractor, M'Alister: a couple of pledgets, and you may begin to sew.