Surgical words


A

abraders

ACMI various instruments

adenotome

Adson clips, forceps, etc.

Airtene

Allen-Brown

Allis forceps

amniotome

Ambu bag

Applicator

Argyle chest tube

AXI tube




B
Babcock, retractor, clamp, etc.


Backhaus towel clamp

Balfour retractor

Ballenger

Braithwaite

Balloon catheter

Bard-Parker blade

Bardic blade, tube


Bartos fibrin tunnel

basket (stone)

Bayonet thumb forceps

beanbag

Beaver blade (& deBakey)

Bernay retractor


Bird screw

Birtcher cautery

Blair saw guides

Blalock

bone wax

bougie, bougie a’ boule (French)


Bovie electrocautery

Brown-Buerger

Buettner-Parel

buie

brush

Buerger needle, etc.

bulldog clamp


Bunnell needle

bur

buttress



C
caliphers, calipers

cannula

capsulotome


Castroviejo scissors, etc.

Charnley

chisel

Cimono shunt

coagulator

colpostat

compressor

conchotome


conductor

connector

Cooley

costotome

cranioclast

craniotome

Crile hemostats

crimper


crocodile clamp

cryosurgical, extractor, probe, cannula

cryptotome

culdoscope

curette

Cushing clips, retractors, etc.

Cutter

cystoscope, Brown-Buerger

cystotome




D
Deaver retractor

debrider

dermabrader

De Bakey

D’Errico bur, etc.


DeLee bulb, catheter

dermatome

DeVilbiss rongeur, trephine

dilator


dissector

Dixon blade

Dobbhoff tube

Douvas cutter

Doyen Clamps

Doyen cross-action forceps

drill


Dumont forceps

Dunhill hemostats



  DRESSINGS

    absorbent

    adaptic

    bandaid

    bioclusive

    bulky


    collodion

    compression

    cotton

    Dri-Site

    dry

    Flexinet

    Esmarch

    fluffy


    Furacin

    gauze

    Gelfoam

    Impregnated

    Ioban

    iodoform (no cap)

    Jobst

    Jones


    Kerlix

    Kling

    Montgomery strips

    Nu-gauze

    pledgets (various types)

    Tegaderm

    Telfa


    Velpeau

    Weck-cel sponge

    Xeroform




E
Eastman clamp

electrotome

elevator


erisophake

Ernst applicator

Esmarch tourniquet (S-mark)

evacuator

excavator

extractor




F

fasciatome

Ferguson forceps, scissors

ferrule

file

filiforms (and followers)

Flieringa scleral ring


Fogarty catheter

Foley catheter

Followers and filiforms

forcep(s)

Freer elevator

French catheter

Frazier dural elevator


Freidrich-Petz clamp

fulgurating tip

Furniss clamp



G
Galt trephine

Gelfoam


Gelita B

Gelpi retractor

Gigli saw

Goldman saw

Gomco drain, tube, suction


Gore-tex (grafts)

gouge

Graefe knife

grooved director

guide




H
Hall air drill

Halsted hemostats

Heaney (clamp)

Harrington forceps, rod, retractor

Heaney clamps, etc.

Hegar dilators


Heifitz clips

hemoclip

hemostat

Hemovac drain

Hiphong trochanter

Hirst forceps


Hohmann

Holinger-Jackson bronchoscope

Holman

hook, Bose, Braun, Pajot, Tyrrell, bone

Horsley bone wax, separator

Hudson drill

Hulka clips


Hurst dilator

hyfrecator




I

  INCISIONS

    Auvray

    Bar’s

    Battle


    Bergmann’s

    Bevan’s

    blunt and sharp

    buttonhole

    Cherney

    Chernez

    chevron

    circular


    circumareolar, -corneal

    circumferential

    circumoral

    circumscribing

    classical

    conjunctival

    corneoscleral

    corollary


    coronal

    crescent, and –shaped

    cross-shaped

    culdotomy

    curved

    curvilinear

    Deaver’s

    dissection


    elliptical

    endaural

    Fergusson’s

    Fowler’s

    Heerman’s

    hemitransfixion

    hockey stick


    infraorbital, -umbilical

    inguinal

    intercartilaginous

    intracapsular

    Kehr’s

    Kocher’s

    Kustner’s


    Langenbeck’s

    LaRoque’s

    lazy H, S, Z

    limbal

    linear

    longitudinal

    lower transverse abdominal

    lunar, semilunar


    Lynch’s

    McBurney

    median

    midline

    muscle splitting

    oblique

    orbicular

    para- w/costal, -median, -muscular, -rectus


    peri – w/limbal, -patellar, -scapular

    purse-string suture

    Pfannanstiel’s (fan-en-steel)

    postauricular

    rectus muscle splitting


    relaxing

    Rocky-Davis’

    Schuchardt’s

    semilunar, -shelving

    serpentine

    Shambaugh

    sharp and blunt

    shelving     spiral


    S-shaped

    stab

    stellate, stellar

    sternal splitting

    subcostal, -occipital

    superficial

    supracervical, -pubic


    tracheal

    transection

    transverse

    T-shaped

    U-shaped

    vertical incision

    V-shaped

    W-shaped

    Yorke-Mason’s


    Y-type

    Z, Z-flap, -plasty, -shaped




J
Jackson – many instruments

Jackson Pratt drain, etc. AKA JP drain


Jesberg bronchoscope, etc.

Jewett brace, nail

Judd various instruments




K
Kanavel cannula

Kerrison punch, rongeur


keratome

Kirmisson raspatory

Kelly clamps, forceps, etc.

Kerr drill

Key drape

Kirschner wire, etc.

Kleinert-Kutz microscopic tool


Klemme retractor

knife

Kocher clamps, forceps, etc.

Koln clips

Kolody hemostatsl





L
lag screws

Lane clamps

Langenbeck elevator

laser

Lawton-Gulesserian


LC-DC plate

Leahey forcep, etc.

Lebsche knife

LeFort

Lembert various


leukotome

Leyla-Yasargil retractor

Ligaclip

ligature carriers, passers

llithotrites

Lockwood clamps

loupe (eye)

Luque wire





M
Machemer cutter

Maguire-harvey cutter

Malecot

Malis coagulator


Maloney dilator

Martin needle

Mayfield clips

Mayo needle and scissors

Mayo-Ochsner box-joint forceps

Mayo-Hegar needle holder


Mayo Pean forceps

McKenzie clips

McIntyre needle

Mersilene suture

Metzenbaum scisssors, chisel


Michel clips

Morris cannula

Mosquito clamps

Moynihan clamps

Munro scissors, etc.

Myringotome




N

nail, nail plate

neurotome




O
obturator

Olympus fibroscope

Olivecrona clips


Olive tip

Ochsner clamps

osteoclast

osteotome

O’Sullivan-O’Connor retractor

Otis

Oxycel





P
Padgett dermatome

Parker-Kerr forceps

Patterson clips

Payr clamp

Penrose drain

Pereyra needle


perforator

Pharmiseal drain

Petty, Lim and Stahl

phoroptor

photocoagulator

pick

plates (bone)

Politzer speculum (procedure)


probe



  POSITIONS

    cross table lateral

    decubitus (with directions), left lateral, dorsal, etc.

    dorsal, recumbent, lithotomy, supine

    frog-legged

    jack-knife


    knee chest, elbow

    lateral decubitus, left

    lithotomy, dorsal

    prone

    recumbent

    semireclining, recumbent

    supine


    Trendelenburg




Q
Quinton-Scribner shunt




R
rafting screws

Raney clips, drill, clamps

Rankin clamp


reamer

red rubber catheter

retractor

Reidel corneal needle

rongeur

Rush nail, rod




S

Sachs cannula

Satterlee saw

Schwartz clips

Scoville clips (also Lewis)

Seldinger catheter


Seletz cannula

Senn retractor

Sim’s retractor

Sinskey hook (ophth)


Smillie nail, punch

Smithwick clip, hook

sound

speculum

Spencer Well forceps

Spurling rongeur


Steenson clamps

stent - tubing

Steradrape

stripper, vein

Strycker - various

sugar clips


sump drain

surgiclip Swan-Ganz
catheter



  SUTURES

    atraumatic

    Babcok


    braided

    catgut

    corneoscleral

    Connell suture (technique)

    chromic

    collagen

    cotton

    cuticular

    Dacron


    Dermalene

    Dermalon

    Dexon

    Ethibond

    Ethicon

    Ethiflex

    Ethilon

    Everting

    Frost stitch


    Halsted suture (technique)

    horizontal mattress suture (technique)

    Lembert suture (technique)

    lock or lock-stitch, locking-stitch (technique)

    over-and-over suture (technique)

    Mersilene

    Monofilament


    Monocryl

    PDS

    Prolene

    purse-string suture (technique)

    retention

    silk

    steel

    subcuticular suture (technique)


    Teflon

    tension

    Tevdek

    vertical mattress suture (technique)




T

tenaculum, single tooth

T-tube drain, etc.


Tenckhoff

Trephine

triple lumen catheter

Trocar

Tru-cut needle




U - NO REFERENCES




V
Vannes scissors

Verres (vair-eese)

Vi-drape

Von Petz clamps


Weck hemoclips



W
Welch, Welch-Allen

Whistle-tip catheter




X - NO REFERENCES





Y
Yankauer scope

Yasargil microclips



Z


Zeiss-Barraquer microscope


Zimmer blade, bolt