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17:46 Nov 1, 2011 |
French to English translations [PRO] Medical - Medical: Instruments / Historical medical instrument | |||||||
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4 +1 | bead ligature |
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bead ligature Explanation: A loop of ligature material is put around the mass to be removed and tightened by sliding the beads down the string as far as possible. Technique is described here in the context of uterine polyps: http://books.google.com/books?id=PVcXAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA197&lpg=P... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 34 mins (2011-11-01 18:20:11 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- with a pic http://books.google.com/books?id=HsIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA214&lpg=P... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 37 mins (2011-11-01 18:23:08 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- ah here we are - goitre see "knot-tyer resembling a string of beads" http://books.google.com/books?id=sDeBC_KcYScC&pg=PA227&lpg=P... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 41 mins (2011-11-01 18:27:48 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Mayor's knot-tyer - bingo Illustrated Manual of Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy - Google Books Result books.google.com/books?isbn=0766188175...Claude Bernard, Charles Huette - 2004 - Medical - 752 pages Mayor's knot- tyer, which resembles a string of beads, is flexible, and adapts itself ... This operation ought only to be performed to arrest a haemorrhage, -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 45 mins (2011-11-01 18:31:21 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- last one http://books.google.com/books?id=XXGRMi7ycXYC&pg=PA820&lpg=P... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 47 mins (2011-11-01 18:33:28 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Note also the mention of "tourniquet de Mayor" in the last link - "bead tourniquet" was in fact my first thought when I read the French description of his instrument. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 59 mins (2011-11-01 18:45:55 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- tourniquet of Mayor |
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