Metzenbaum scissors

English

Etymology

They were designed by the American surgeon Myron Firth Metzenbaum (1876–1944).

Noun

Metzenbaum scissors pl (plural only)

  1. A kind of surgical scissors for cutting delicate tissue and blunt dissection, having a relatively long shank-to-blade ratio.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.