Tongue-de-press′or.
(Surgical.) An instrument which has a socket to go beneath the lower jaw and form a fulcrum for the pivoted spatula which rests upon and holds down the tongue during oral, laryngeal, and esophageal examinations and operations. A tongue-spatula. a, the Elsburg pattern. b, Church's self-holding tongue-spatula.
Tiemann's tongue-spatulas. |