He curved the tips of his fingers into blunt hooks and scraped them roughly over her inner walls.

Blunt hooks were used primarily as probes for dissection and for raising blood vessels.

The ancient doctors used two basic types of hooks: sharp hooks and blunt hooks.

There is a single, blunt hook on the tops of abdominal segments two through six, the tallest occurs on segment four.

It took me a sweating, panting half hour with ropes and a blunt hook on the end of a flexible cane to bring the first leg round.

It consists of a bendable plastic rod with a blunt hook on one side, and is situated on the inside of the drawer or cabinet.

I had tried everything else - repelling a leg, gentle traction with a blunt hook in the eye socket, but I was back to the noose.

These may include a blunt hook to pull on tissues, a shaver to remove damaged or unwanted tissues, and a burr to remove bone.

The bright orange tarpaulin was held down by a strong nylon rope that wove its way between metal grommets in the tarpaulin and blunt hooks on the side of the boat.

Relyn tapped the blunt hook that had replaced his right hand against the cut stone of the wall in a series of nervous movements, almost a replacement gesture for tapping fingers or snapping them.

Since then Jan had laced a padded base to the stump of his wrist, and from the base he could affix either a blunt hook or one with needle tip and razor-sharp inner curve.

A new blunt hook inserted into an airsac in the whale's blowhole has now been widely tested in practice and it is hoped that this new equipment may eventually replace the traditional gaff as the standard method for securing whales.

Roughly a millennium later the Roman aristocrat Aulus Cornelius Celsus (25 AD - 50 AD) described a procedure whereby using the finger (or a blunt hook if necessary), the tonsil was separated from the neighboring tissue before being cut out.