The word "forceps" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a medical instrument that is used to grasp and grab tissue during certain medical procedures. Example sentence: The doctor used forceps to carefully extract the tumor from the patient's body.
Particularly significant to Nice's thought process is the suggestion that home births offer a more conducive, less stressful environment than a noisy hospital ward, where infection is often more difficult to contain and where stretched doctors are all too keen on epidurals and forceps.
The changes, published on Wednesday, have been made because women who give birth under midwife-led care have less chance of being asked to undergo medical interventions such as episiotomies, caesareans and use of forceps or ventouse.
Eventually the pressure became too much, I abandoned my home birth plan and my baby was born in a more conventional way – forceps, episiotomy, feet in stirrups.
Related: Northern Alabama's only abortion clinic fights to survive lawmakers' onslaught Under the new law, doctors would be banned from using forceps, clamps, scissors or similar instruments on a live fetus to remove it from the womb in pieces.
For healthy women, the rates of forceps or caesarian deliveries are shown to be lower in home births.
The ancient Egyptians are thought to have performed surgery back in 2750BC, and the Romans developed medical tools such as forceps and surgical needles.
Hospital births are more likely to end in Caesarean sections, and to involve episiotomies (cutting the perineum) and epidurals (which increase the odds that the labour will require forceps, which can tear the perineum).In this section Is there no place like home?
Their large incisor teeth are used like forceps to grab prey; the upper pair is hooked, and the lower pair extends forward.
If the eye is moved passively, for example, by pulling on the conjunctiva with forceps, the subject has the impression that objects in the outside world are moving in a direction opposite to that of the eye.
Simpson introduced iron wire sutures and acupressure, a method of arresting hemorrhage, and developed the long obstetrics forceps that are named for him.
Sandpipers and their relatives (Scolopacidae) use their slender bills as forceps to pick up surface invertebrates or (especially in the calidridine sandpipers) for probing in mud.
