单词 | alphonsine |
释义 | alphonsinen. Surgery. Now historical and rare. A kind of three-pronged forceps used esp. for the extraction of bullets. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > instruments for extracting foreign bodies ground-drawer1598 upheaver1598 crow-bill1611 probang1657 stork's bill1671 goose-bill1676 alphonsine1688 protracter1726 protractor1728 bullet-drawer1752 parasol probang1882 coin-catcher1895 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. xii. 435/1 The other Instrument is termed an Alphonsine, a thing made fit to take a Bullet out of a wound. 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) The Alphonsin, so called from its inventor Alphonsus Ferrier, a physician of Naples consists of three branches, which are closed together by means of a ring. 1833 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 40 440 Alphonso is known to have contrived a species of ball-forceps for extracting bullets, which has long been known under the name of Alphonsine. 1848 Lancet 26 Aug. 227/2 Two of these instruments are well worthy of fixing the attention of the surgeon—the first is Alphonse Ferry's, which has led the way for lithotritic instruments; it still goes by the name of Alphonsine. 1979 E. Bennion Antique Med. Instruments viii. 159 In 1552 a variation in the form of an ornate three-legged forceps was introduced from Naples by Alphonso Ferri (1515-95) and became known as an Alphonsine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1688 |
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