English Explanatory Dictionary

Metzenbaum scissors

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of surgical scissors for cutting delicate tissue and blunt dissection, having a relatively long shank-to-blade ratio.

Word forms

Metzenbaum scissors

Etymology

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

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