Translation examples
Dile que me traiga la sierra de arco y un tenáculo pequeño.
“Tell him to bring my bow-frame saw and a small tenaculum.”
–Tengo un instrumento llamado tenáculo para abrir el esternón y quitar las costillas -dijo Goodsir, apaciblemente-, pero me temo que no se lo podré prestar.
“I have an instrument called a tenaculum to crack the sternum and to remove the ribs,” Goodsir said softly, “but I’m afraid I can’t let you borrow it.
A falta de un tenáculo para sostener los vasos sanguíneos de mayor tamaño que se replegaban en la carne cuando eran seccionados, tenía que buscarlos con la punta de la aguja y sacarlos, anclarlos a la carne abierta, expuesta y ligarlos lo más deprisa posible, reforzándolos alrededor con hilo y una de las agujas más pequeñas y anudándolo.
Lacking a tenaculum to seize the large blood vessels that snapped back into the flesh when severed, I had to probe for them with the point of the needle and drag them out, anchor them into the raw, exposed flesh, and then ligate them as fast as I could, whipping thread round them with one of the smaller needles and tying it off.
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