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Obstetrical Forceps

"Obstetrical Forceps" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Surgical instrument designed to extract the newborn by the head from the maternal passages without injury to it or the mother.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Obstetrical Forceps" by people in this website by year, and whether "Obstetrical Forceps" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 5 publications over 4 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2008
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