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Te-nac′u-lum.

Surgical.) a. A fine hook, attached to a handle, which is thrust through the parietes of a blood-vessel to draw it out and enable it to be tied.

Tenacula.

a, pockettenacu-lum.

b, aneurismtenacu-lum.

c, aneurism-needle.

d, ordinary tenaculum.

e, tenaculum-forceps.

The double tenacula (Fig 6294) consist of two hooks, pivoted after the [2530] manner of scissors, for more effectually holding the ends of a severed artery.

Double tenacula.

b. Bone-nippers.

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