What is an instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. Dunglison called?
crotchet — (Med.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus. Dunglison. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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