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Vulsellum vs Tenaculum - What's the difference?

vulsellum | tenaculum |

As nouns the difference between vulsellum and tenaculum

is that vulsellum is a pair of surgical forceps with hooks at the tip of each blade, used in obstetrics and gynecology while tenaculum is a medical instrument consisting of a sharp hook attached to a handle; used mainly for taking up arteries and the like.

vulsellum

English

(wikipedia vulsellum)

Noun

  • A pair of surgical forceps with hooks at the tip of each blade, used in obstetrics and gynecology.

    • tenaculum

    English

    Noun

    (tenacula)
  • A medical instrument consisting of a sharp hook attached to a handle; used mainly for taking up arteries and the like.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1909, author=, title=Preventable Diseases, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }} ----