Hand Grip Tonsil Snare
| Title: | Hand Grip Tonsil Snare. |
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| Name(s): |
Virginia Commonwealth University. Health Sciences Library. Special Collections & Archives, contributor VCU Libraries, publisher |
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| Type of Resource: | still image | |
| Genre: | Medical artifact | |
| Extent: | 2 cm. x 22 cm. x 17.5 cm. | |
| Physical description: | Stainless steel tonsil snare with hand and finger lock. Apparatus is constructed of three pieces. Central piece contains a large opening for a four-fingered grip, with a guide sleeve for a thin metal rod which is moved back and forth in the sleeve by a third piece, a thumb grip and lever which moves the metal rod. The thumb grip and lever are attached to the finger grip with a small screw hinge, and has a curved arm to provide forward and reverse movement of the rod. The rod has to small openings at the distal end to provide for the attachment of a wire. | |
| Identifier(s): |
Accession Number: 1984.5.4 (accession number) CONTENTdm ID: mar/id/6 (CONTENTdm ID) |
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| Note(s): |
Type of Object: Snare, tonsil |
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| Subject(s): |
Place of Manufacture: United States Time Period: Twentieth century Tonsillectomy -- instrumentation; Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures -- instrumentation |
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| LC Classification: | R856.A5 | |
| Rights Statement URL: | https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ | |
| Rights Statement: | In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted | |
| Rights: | This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required. | |
| Is Part Of: | Collection: Medical Artifacts Collection. | |
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