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The following listing includes most commonly heard surgical words. The entire listing is alphabetized. If you are looking for
Instruments - see the alpha list
Incisions - look under “I”
Dressings - look under “D”
Positions - look under “P”
Suture types - look under “S”
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A
abraders
ACMI various instruments
adenotome
Adson clips, forceps, etc.
Airtene
Allen-Brown
Allis forceps
amniotome
Ambu bag
Applicator
Argyle chest tube
AXI tube
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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
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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
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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
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E
Eastman clamp
electrotome
elevator
erisophake
Ernst applicator
Esmarch tourniquet (S-mark)
evacuator
excavator
extractor
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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
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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
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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
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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
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J
Jackson – many instruments
Jackson Pratt drain, etc. AKA JP drain
Jesberg bronchoscope, etc.
Jewett brace, nail
Judd various instruments
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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
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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
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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
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N
nail, nail plate
neurotome
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O
obturator
Olympus fibroscope
Olivecrona clips
Olive tip
Ochsner clamps
osteoclast
osteotome
O’Sullivan-O’Connor retractor
Otis
Oxycel
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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
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Q
Quinton-Scribner shunt
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R
rafting screws
Raney clips, drill, clamps
Rankin clamp
reamer
red rubber catheter
retractor
Reidel corneal needle
rongeur
Rush nail, rod
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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 - (see illustrations at end of listing)
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)
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T
tenaculum, single tooth
T-tube drain, etc.
Tenckhoff
Trephine
triple lumen catheter
Trocar
Tru-cut needle
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U - NO REFERENCES
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V
Vannes scissors
Verres (vair-eese)
Vi-drape
Von Petz clamps
Weck hemoclips
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W
Welch, Welch-Allen
Whistle-tip catheter
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X - NO REFERENCES
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Y
Yankauer scope
Yasargil microclips
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Z
Zeiss-Barraquer microscope
Zimmer blade, bolt
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