obstetrical forceps

They are famous for inventing the modern use of obstetrical forceps.

He also made improvements to the obstetrical forceps.

He's going to be really handy to have around if I have another hard time; he's reinvented obstetrical forceps.

The obstetrical forceps have been of such great service in diminishing the number of still-born infants that they were once called the child's instrument.

Palfijn is remembered for introducing the obstetrical forceps (Main de Palfijn) into medicine in the early 1720s.

Smellie described the mechanism of labor, designed obstetrical forceps, devised a maneuver to deliver the head of a breech, and published his teachings.

He is credited with the design of an obstetrical forceps (Breus' forceps) that was once widely used in German hospitals.

Obstetrical forceps were devised by one of the Chamberlens, a family of French Huguenots who fled to England in 1569.

In 1670, English obstetrician Hugh Chamberlen tried to sell the secret of a specialized obstetrical forceps to Mauriceau.

Whenever rigidity of the muscles adjacent to the birth-canal arrests delivery the physician may employ the obstetrical forceps, which have been in use since the seventeenth century.

"Scanzoni maneuver": (Scanzoni forceps technique) A method of applying an obstetrical forceps in order to rotate a fetus.

He invented both the "Barton bandage" (a figure eight bandage that provides support below and anterior to the lower jaw), and Barton forceps (obstetrical forceps with one fixed, curved blade and lunged anterior blade for application to a high transverse position of the head).

Burton's text shows signs of hasty composition which were perhaps partly due to his attempt to recover his damaged professional status but were principally due to his wish to forestall a book being written by the eminent London man-midwife, William Smellie, which was sure to publicize Smellie's improved obstetrical forceps.