noun, plural for·ceps, for·ci·pes [fawr-suh-peez]. an instrument, as pincers or tongs, for seizing and holding objects, as in surgical operations. Anatomy, Zoology.

instrument noun [C] (MUSIC) an object, such as a piano, guitar, or flute, which is played to produce musical sounds: He plays saxophone, trumpet, and several other instruments.

grasping, holding firmly

Correct spelling for the English word “forceps” is [fˈɔːsɛps], [fˈɔːsɛps], [f_ˈɔː_s_ɛ_p_s] (IPA phonetic alphabet).

Commonly used thumb forceps include Adson forceps, Iris forceps and Foester forceps. Locking forceps may be called clamps and are used to securely hold tissue. When they are used to control blood flow, they are called hemostats. When used to grasp and manipulate needles, they are called needle holders.

The noun receptivity is useful for describing someone’s openness, especially to new ideas or different opinions.

It gives us the opportunity to experience reality on a deeper level , to shift perspective and to see the bigger picture. Being receptive affords us a break from the struggle of pushing to make something happen and offers the chance to gain some positive energy and insight.

adjective. willingly or readily accepting or receiving; receptive.

What is the opposite of receptive?

unreceptive	narrow-minded
hostile	insensitive
slow	unconcerned
unfeeling	unfriendly
unsociable	unsusceptible

Receptive language refers to how your child understands language. Expressive language refers to how your child uses words to express himself/herself. Young children with language difficulties may have: Poor eye contact.

Receptive language is the “input” of language, the ability to understand and comprehend spoken language that you hear or read. For example, a child’s ability to listen and follow directions (e.g. “put on your coat”) relies on the child’s receptive language skills.

Expressive language is our ability to communicate our thoughts and feelings through words, gestures, signs, and/or symbols. It can be as simple as pointing to a desired object or as complex as writing a book about an area of interest.

Receptive language disorder is often associated with developmental disorders such as autism or Down syndrome. (Although for some children, difficulty with language is the only developmental problem they experience.)

No, not necessarily. Kids with autism are often late talkers but not all late talkers have autism. The definition of a late talker we’re speaking about here implies that the child has typical cognitive, social, vision, and hearing skills.

If your child is over two years old, you should have your pediatrician evaluate them and refer them for speech therapy and a hearing exam if they can only imitate speech or actions but don’t produce words or phrases by themselves, they say only certain words and only those words repeatedly, they cannot follow simple …

Autistic children with verbal communication generally hit language milestones later than children with typical development. While typically developing children produce their first words between 12 and 18 months old, autistic children were found to do so at an average of 36 months.

In the largest study of the subject to date, her research team found that most young children with ASD and severe language delay developed “phrase or fluent” speech by age 8, with almost half achieving fluent speech.

As many as 40 percent of autistic children don’t speak at all. Others may speak but have very limited language and communication skills. The best way to help your child build their communication skills and potentially learn to speak is to begin treatment as soon as possible.

Children with autism mainly produce one sort of laughter — voiced laughter, which has a tonal, song-like quality. This type of laughter is associated with positive emotions in typical controls. In the new study, researchers recorded the laughter of 15 children with autism and 15 typical children aged 8 to 10 years.

Patterns of Behavior

• Repetitive behaviors like hand-flapping, rocking, jumping, or twirling.
• Constant moving (pacing) and “hyper” behavior.
• Fixations on certain activities or objects.
• Specific routines or rituals (and getting upset when a routine is changed, even slightly)
• Extreme sensitivity to touch, light, and sound.

Typical babies will mimic others, whether through facial movements (making a funny face, for example), making a particular sound with their voice, or waving, clapping or making other similar gestures.

At both ages, those in the autism and disability groups are more likely than the controls to transition quickly from whimpering to intense crying. This suggests that the children have trouble managing their emotions, the researchers say.

For example, a shy child may avoid eye contact, hide behind their parents or not join in at playgroup or in social settings. Likewise, a child with autism may not speak, look at other people or play with their peers.

1. An instrument resembling a pair of pincers or tongs, used for grasping, manipulating, or extracting, especially such an instrument used by a surgeon. 2. A pincerlike pair of movable appendages at the posterior end of the abdomen in certain insects, such as earwigs.

Tweezers look like pincers, and are pinched together manually to extract an object from the body. Forceps often have larger handles that can be used to remove larger objects from the body. These are held with both hands, while tweezers are held with one hand.

Forceps are nonlocking grasping tools that function as an extension of the thumb and opposing fingers in the assisting hand to augment the instrument in the operating hand. Their primary purpose is to grasp, retract, or stabilize tissue.

In a forceps delivery, a health care provider applies forceps — an instrument shaped like a pair of large spoons or salad tongs — to the baby’s head to help guide the baby out of the birth canal. This is typically done during a contraction while the mother pushes.

Can I refuse to give consent for the use of forceps? You have a choice about whether forceps are used to deliver your baby or not. Mothers may refuse to consent to any procedure they don’t want during their labour and delivery.

The study found that, in cases where there were no signs of distress, infants were five to 10 times more likely to experience severe, potentially debilitating birth trauma when forceps or a vacuum were used at the mid-pelvic stage compared to if they were delivered via Caesarean section.

While using forceps is considered a safe procedure, forceps can cause brain damage during delivery. One of the most common and severe injuries is cerebral palsy. This disorder can affect the movement, balance, and muscle tone of the baby.

The time taken to recover is usually 6-8 weeks, but some women may take longer to recover. Most patients can resume light daily activities in a few days. Patients experience vaginal bleeding for a few days to weeks after delivery for which they would have to wear a sanitary napkin.

That said, the current study did find that a number of birth factors showed no relationship to autism. Those included use of anesthesia, forceps or vacuum during childbirth, high birth weight and newborn head circumference.

In the immediate postpartum period the rupture in the Descemet’s membrane leads to corneal oedema which eventually disappears leaving the visible edges of the break. This injury also leads to severe left eye astigmatism and secondary amblyopia.

Main findings: vacuum and forceps assisted delivery and emergency caesarean were associated with an increased risk of first ever mental health contact. The risk of first ever mental health contact was similar for spontaneous vaginal delivery and elective caesarean.

Descemet’s membrane- which is the basement membrane for the corneal endothelium- is a dense, thick, relatively transparent and cell-free matrix that separates the posterior corneal stroma from the underlying endothelium.

Descemet’s membrane is composed of collagen fibers (different from those of the stroma) and is made by the endothelial cells that lie below it. Descemet’s membrane is regenerated readily after injury. Once endothelium cells are destroyed by disease or trauma, they are lost forever.

Hypopyon is the accumulation of neutrophils and fibrin that typically settles ventrally within the anterior chamber (E-Fig. 21-11). Inflammation within the iris and ciliary body is usually referred to as anterior uveitis (or less commonly iridocyclitis).

The corneal layers include epithelium, Bowman’s layer, stroma, Descemet’s membrane, and endothelium [Fig. 2].

C Regeneration of Corneal Epithelium. The corneal epithelium is the only part of the cornea that undergoes both maintenance and injury-induced regeneration. Corneal epithelium will not regenerate properly after wounding in the absence of the limbus (Huang and Tseng, 1991).

Because transparency is of prime importance the cornea does not have blood vessels; it receives nutrients via diffusion from the tear fluid at the outside and the aqueous humour at the inside and also from neurotrophins supplied by nerve fibers that innervate it.

What Are the Symptoms?

1. Feel like you have sand or grit in your eye.
2. Have pain, especially when you open or close your eye.
3. Notice tearing and redness.
4. Become sensitive to light.
5. Have blurred vision.

It refers to inflammation of your conjunctiva, the tissue that lines the inner surface of your eyelid and covers the white part of your eye. The condition is very common, especially in children. The inflammation caused by conjunctivitis can make it feel like there’s something in your eye.

Topical Ophthalmologic Medications for Corneal Abrasion

Medication	Dosage
Polymyxin B/trimethoprim (Polytrim) solution	1 drop, four times per day for three to five days
Sulfacetamide 10% (Bleph-10) solution	1 to 2 drops, four times per day for three to five days
Antipseudomonal antibiotics

Foreign body sensation in the eye – a typical symptom of dry eyes. Dry eyes lead to the sensation that you have sand in your eyes. Sometimes your eye is itchy or feels scratchy – you have the sensation that a foreign body, such as a grain of sand, is in your eye.

To treat a foreign object located beneath the lower eyelid:

1. Pull out the lower eyelid or press down on the skin below the eyelid to see underneath it.
2. If the object is visible, try tapping it with a damp cotton swab.
3. For a persistent object, try to flush it out by flowing water on the eyelid as you hold it open.

Answer: If it feels like something is rubbing against your eyes when you blink it is called a foreign body sensation (FBS).

Dirt or Debris

1. Use your tears. Gently pull your upper eyelid down so it hangs over your lower lashes.
2. Flush it. You can also rinse your eye with cool water from a sink.
3. Wipe it. If you see the small object on your eyeball, you can try to get it out by gently swiping with a wet washcloth.
4. Don’t rub.

You might have the urge to rub your eye, and your eye will probably start tearing up. If you have an eyelash in your eye, try to stay calm and follow the instructions in this article. Most of the time, an eyelash can simply and easily be removed without further complications.

Contact lens solutions is essentially saline solution with additional cleaning compounds, however, it’s exactly these cleaning compounds that can damage your eye. They’re designed to break down organic material, and will hurt your eyes if you use it as a rinse. This is all because of how it interacts with your eye.

Stovetop method

1. Boil 2 cups of water covered for 15 minutes.
2. Allow to cool to room temperature.
3. Add 1 teaspoon of salt.
4. Add 1 pinch of baking soda (optional).
5. Stir until dissolved.
6. Refrigerate in airtight container for up to 24 hours.
7. Add 2 cups of water to a microwave-safe container.
8. Mix in 1 teaspoon of salt.

If you get hand sanitizer in your eye, it’s important to avoid rubbing it and to flush your eye as soon as possible. You should flush your eyes for at least 20 minutes with clean, room temperature tap water after a chemical splash. You can use your shower or a sink to flush your eye.

Once you’re home, you may find it more comfortable to lie on your side or sit on a doughnut shaped cushion to relieve pain and pressure . You could try using a Valley cushion, which is designed for use after childbirth.

3 in every 100 women having a vaginal birth. 4 in every 100 women having a ventouse delivery. 8 to 12 in every 100 women having a forceps delivery.

We also know that children who are born prematurely have a greater chance of being autistic, and children with older fathers are at slightly higher risk of autism.

Autism is not an illness It’s something you’re born with or first appears when you’re very young. If you’re autistic, you’re autistic your whole life. Autism is not a medical condition with treatments or a “cure”. But some people need support to help them with certain things.

In the study, many instances of ADHD were found to be correlated with the asphyxiation (the deprivation of oxygen) of the infant for more than one minute and an excess of pressure having been placed on the infant’s brain by medical professionals via forceps or vacuum extractors.

Lack of oxygen at birth, trauma during birth, and infections acquired during delivery can cause ADHD.”

Trauma and traumatic stress, according to a growing body of research, are closely associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD). Trauma and adversity can alter the brain’s architecture, especially in children, which may partly explain their link to the development of ADHD.

Researchers also found that the association between IHC and ADHD was strongest in preterm births and that deliveries that were breech, transverse (shoulder-first) or had cord complications were found to be associated with a 13 percent increased risk of ADHD.

Nuchal cords are surprisingly common and unlikely to cause problems during pregnancy or at birth. Estimates suggest that 20 to 30 percent of all deliveries involve a nuchal cord.

Other risks of post-term birth include perinatal mortality, fetal dysmaturity syndrome, meconium aspiration syndrome, neonatal encephalopathy, and possibly cerebral palsy. Pertinent Points: – Post-term birth was associated with more behavioral and emotional problems in early childhood, especially ADHD.

A “tight” nuchal cord is defined as one that cannot be slipped over the baby’s head during delivery, and may compress the fetal neck. Third, the nuchal cord can be Type A or Type B: A Type A nuchal cord is “unlocked.” The umbilical end goes under the placental end, and fetal movement can easily undo it.

Babies can get the cord wrapped around their necks multiple times and still be completely fine. Around 1 in 2,000 births will have a true knot in the cord, in which case there are some associated risks. Even in these cases, it’s rare for the cord to tighten enough to become dangerous.

Cord entanglement is a common finding in utero; however, fetal demise resulting from nuchal cord entanglement is rare (1–8).

Umbilical cord compression due to tight nuchal cords may cause obstruction of blood flow in thin walled umbilical vein, while infant’s blood continues to be pumped out of the baby through the thicker walled umbilical arteries causing hypovolemia, acidosis and anemia.

The answer is almost always no. Some abdominal contact is inevitable and typically harmless during pregnancy, from doing daily tasks at work to managing rambunctious toddlers and pets. The rare exceptions usually involve abdominal trauma, such as getting in a car accident.

Answer. While “tight nuchal cord” is not presently an official synonym for “nuchal cord with compression” under ICD-10-CM, this does not invalidate the term’s use.

One of the most severe complications that can arise from nuchal cord birth injuries is, as mentioned earlier, brain damage. Lack of oxygen to the brain can occur when the umbilical cord is wrapped tight around the baby’s neck. This, in turn, can cause a host of additional medical problems, including: Seizures.

Other early symptoms of brain damage can include seizures. An infant may also display certain behavioral symptoms of brain damage like excessive crying, unusual irritability or fussiness, difficulty sleeping or eating, and other signs of general discomfort that have no other explanation.

Sometimes the baby’s umbilical cord can get wrapped around its neck during the later stages of pregnancy or during labor and delivery. The majority of the time, a nuchal cord poses no threat to the baby.

A nuchal cord (or Cord-Around-the Neck (CAN)) occurs when the umbilical cord becomes wrapped around the fetal neck 360 degrees. Nuchal cords are very common, the incidence of nuchal cord increases with advancing gestation from 12% at 24 to 26 weeks to 37% at term [1].