any of various types of stool (typically having a u-shaped seat) designed to be used during childbirth to allow the mother to give birth while…

An instrument of the pincers kind, used for seizing and holding objects, esp. in surgical and obstetric operations.

= unguis, n. 3. Obsolete. rare.

A claw-shaped obstetrical instrument. Obsolete. rare.

Obstetrics (see quot. 1884.)

Surgery. spec. an instrument employed in obstetrical surgery.

An instrument formerly in use for extracting a fœtus; = fillet, n.1 2c.

(See quot. 1842.)

Surgery. An instrument for piercing the skull of a (dead) fetus in the birth canal in order to facilitate delivery. Also: a trephine.

Surgery. An obstetrical instrument employed as a lever to free the head of the child.

an instrument for doing this.

Anything used to bind; a band, bandage, etc.; in Medicine, a piece of calico or a special apparatus used in obstetric surgery.

Applied to various kinds of foot-rest analogous to the stirrup. Surgery. An appliance used in operations for extension. Also, each of a pair of…

a cup-shaped appliance for achieving this.

any of various types of stool (typically having a u-shaped seat) designed to be used during childbirth to allow the mother to give birth while…

= vacuum extractor n. at vacuum, n. compounds 2.