| 释义 |
alphonsin Surg.|ælˈfɒnsɪn|
[see below.]
A surgical instrument having three elastic branches for the extraction of bullets from the body.
1751Chambers Cycl., The Alphonsin, so called from its inventor Alphonsus Ferrier, a physician of Naples [in 1552] consists of three branches, which are closed together by means of a ring. 1839in Hooper Med. Dict. |