Surgery Crossword

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  1. 4. Surgeons tend to find these very helpful when manipulating tissue
  2. 6. Though this tool shares its name with a a key part of any chicken salad, it is used in the surgical world to cut the denser tissue of a patient.
  3. 8. Wow! It would be nice to have a set these at the neighborhood bbq. This tool is a surgeon's best friend when it comes to keeping ribs separated
  4. 10. Your nurse asks you to remove suture from a patient. You respond, "no problem. I have the perfect tool". This is your perfect tool
  5. 12. If you're a hockey fan, this tool might remind you of the 2008 Stanley Cup winning Head Coach of the Detroit Red Wings, but in medicine, this tool enables a surgeon to hold a gentler grip of delicate tissue such as the bladder.
  6. 13. These are used to hold the surgical drape in place
  7. 14. When a surgeon needs to have exposure to the abdominal cavity, this tool is used to retract the abdominal wall
  8. 15. Though this tool shares its name with an insect well known as a disease vector, it used by a surgeon to clamp small blood vessels
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  1. 1. This tool is used for both blunt and sharp dissection of delicate tissue
  2. 2. Though this tool may not be great for slicing a cake, it is great for making surgical incisions
  3. 3. Though its name might sound like a cast member on Jersey Shore, this tool is used for uterine horn retrieval during OHE
  4. 5. Would be used during OHE on ovarian pedicles
  5. 7. As head surgeon of your hospital, you are tasked with performing an anastomosis of the small intestine. This tool is used to temporarily occlude the lumen of the bowl
  6. 9. During clinics, the lead surgeon asks you to cut some bandage. You look in the kit and find these.
  7. 11. Your surgery list keeps piling up and now you are called to repair a HBC dog's femur. This tool would be used to keep skeletal structure in place as you perform the surgery
  8. 15. For all you NFL fans, this tool shares its name with a certain safety currently signed to the reigning Super Bowl champions, Kansas City Chiefs. In the surgical world, this tool is used to grasp and manipulate curved needle