Obstetrical Forceps

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MSH: Surgical instrument designed to extract the newborn by the head from the maternal passages without injury to it or the mother.,SPN: An obstetric forceps is a device consisting of two blades, with handles, designed to grasp and apply traction to the fetal head in the birth passage and facilitate delivery.,UMD: Forceps used to gently grasp, extract, and apply traction to or rotation of the head of a newborn in order to facilitate delivery and removal of the newborn from the birth canal (the channel formed by the cervix, vagina, and vulva). They consist of two separate sides or handles and are manually squeezed together using both hands.

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