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tenaculums

tenaculums is the plural of tenaculum.

Meaning of tenaculum

Noun

tenaculum (plural tenacula or tenaculums)

  1. A medical instrument consisting of a sharp hook attached to a handle; used mainly for taking up arteries and the like.
    • It was a recognized procedure in those days (and is resorted to still), when all medical, electrical, and other remedial measures had failed to relieve a furious neuralgia, for the surgeon to cut down upon the nerve-trunk, free it from its surrounding attachments, and, slipping his tenaculum or...1909, Woods Hutchinson, Preventable Diseases
  2. A hapteron or holdfast.

Questions about tenaculums

What is tenaculums the plural of?
Tenaculums is the plural of tenaculum.

Words near tenaculums in the dictionary

  1. tenacle
  2. tenacles
  3. tenacula
  4. tenacular
  5. tenaculum
  6. tenaculums
  7. tenacy
  8. Tenafly
  9. Tenaglia
  10. Tenaglias
  11. tenagophyte

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