Used for clamping tissue or vessels. Many styles and sizes are available. Surgical forceps are usually held like scissors with a connector mechanism allowing the clamp to hold at increasing pressure. Jaws can be straight, curved, serrated, smooth, fine, heavy, t-shaped, along with other varieties.
Towel
Used to attach and secure drape material or to grasp tissue with minimal trauma and for applying traction. Towel forceps can be perforating or nonperforating; hinged or spring activated; with or without ballstops; and come in various lengths.
Also known as; backhaus, edna, jones, peers forceps, and roeder towel clamp, towel clip.