tenaculum
English
Etymology
Latin tenaculum
Noun
tenaculum (plural tenacula or tenaculums)
- A medical instrument consisting of a sharp hook attached to a handle; used mainly for taking up arteries and the like.
- 1909, Woods Hutchinson, Preventable Diseases:
- It was a recognized procedure in those days (and is resorted to still), when all medical, electrical, and other remedial measures had failed to relieve a furious neuralgia, for the surgeon to cut down upon the nerve-trunk, free it from its surrounding attachments, and, slipping his tenaculum or finger under it, stretch the nerve with a considerable degree of force.
- 2013, Mitchel S. Hoffman, William N. Spellacy, The Difficult Vaginal Hysterectomy: A Surgical Atlas, →ISBN, page 62:
- Additional tenaculums are placed laterally to maintain control Within the bounds of the broad ligaments and yet allow maximum feasible removal.
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Latin
Etymology
Late Latin. From teneō + -culum.
Noun
tenāculum n (genitive tenāculī); second declension
- (Late Latin) instrument for gripping
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tenāculum | tenācula |
| Genitive | tenāculī | tenāculōrum |
| Dative | tenāculō | tenāculīs |
| Accusative | tenāculum | tenācula |
| Ablative | tenāculō | tenāculīs |
| Vocative | tenāculum | tenācula |
Descendants
- English: tenaculum
- French: tenaille
- Italian: tenacolo
- Portuguese: tenáculo, tenalha
- Spanish: tenáculo
References
- “tenaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tenaculum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tenaculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette