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Artifact Name	Hand Grip Tonsil Snare
Type of Object	Snare, tonsil
Place of Manufacture	United States
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	2 cm. x 22 cm. x 17.5 cm.
Physical Details	Stainless steel tonsil snare with hand and finger lock. Apparatus is constructed of three pieces. Central piece contains a large opening for a four-fingered grip, with a guide sleeve for a thin metal rod which is moved back and forth in the sleeve by a third piece, a thumb grip and lever which moves the metal rod. The thumb grip and lever are attached to the finger grip with a small screw hinge, and has a curved arm to provide forward and reverse movement of the rod. The rod has to small openings at the distal end to provide for the attachment of a wire.
Medical Subject	Tonsillectomy -- instrumentation; Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures -- instrumentation
Accession Number	1984.5.4
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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