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Tenaculum
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Te-nac′u-lum
,Noun.
pl. L.
Tenacula
(#)
; E. Tenaculums
(#)
. [L., a holder, fr.
tenere
to hold. Cf. Tenaille
.] (Surg.)
An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like.
Definition 2024
tenaculum
tenaculum
English
Noun
tenaculum (plural tenacula)
- A medical instrument consisting of a sharp hook attached to a handle; used mainly for taking up arteries and the like.
- 1909, Woods Hutchinson, Preventable Diseases:
- It was a recognized procedure in those days (and is resorted to still), when all medical, electrical, and other remedial measures had failed to relieve a furious neuralgia, for the surgeon to cut down upon the nerve-trunk, free it from its surrounding attachments, and, slipping his tenaculum or finger under it, stretch the nerve with a considerable degree of force.
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Latin
Etymology
Late Latin. From teneō.
Noun
tenaculum
- (Late Latin) instrument for gripping
Descendants
- English: tenaculum
- French: tenaille
- Italian: tenacolo
- Portuguese: tenáculo, tenalha
- Spanish: tenáculo
References
- tenaculum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- TENACULUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tenaculum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.