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Grasp´er


n.1.One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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- Ig Endolumenal Interventional Grasper, a flexible endoscopic tool intended to grasp and manipulate tissue within the digestive tract under direct endoscopic visualization.
A stick with a noose attached, known as a grasper, is also said to have been used during the alleged cruelty.
Additional equipment was required - and in moving further boulders - RSPCA inspector Mark Roberts was ultimately able to rescue the kitten utilising a cat grasper.
Additional equipment was required and RSPCA inspector Mark Roberts was ultimately able to rescue the kitten using a cat grasper.
The fallopian tube can be grasped with a laparoscopic grasper and the mesosalpinx sealed and divided using a vessel-sealing device (Figure 4).
If the appendix was not a complicated one like perforated, Retrocecal or having adhesions; the appendix was grasped through this port by the help of a Babcock (endoscopic) or atraumatic grasper at the tip, pneumoperitoneum was deflated and the appendix was taken out of the abdomen.
MIDLANDS TINY TROWELS GRASPER CARROT Toddler Jasper Brynn is tickled mighty veg
Equipment that should ideally be readily available for the procedure includes: rat tooth and alligator forceps, polypectomy snare, polyp grasper, Dormia basket and retrieval net.
He interferes by holding the door shut, knocking the robot's grasper away from the handle, and generally getting in the way.
"It was quite a tricky rescue as there was little room for me to manoeuvre the special 'grasper' we use to help animals out of awkward situations.
An RSPCA officer attended the scene, and climbed above the gap using a ladder, before reaching down and safely winching the cat to safety using a grasper device.