Definition
A surgical instrument with a curved or hooked end, used in obstetrics to grip and extract a fetus.
Etymology
From Latin embryulcus, combining embryo with ulcus (a hooked instrument). A technical obstetric term from medieval and early modern medicine.
Kelly Says
The embryulcus's hooked design was ingenious for its time—it allowed enough grip to extract a stuck fetus without the crushing force of blunt tools, though it still sounds nightmarishly crude by modern standards.
Translations
AMአማርኛ
ትንሽ ልጅ
tin-shil li-j
ARالعربية
الجنين
al-janin
CACatalà
embrió
em-bree-oh
CSČeština
embryo
em-bree-oh
DADansk
embryo
em-bree-oh
DEDeutsch
Embryo
em-bree-oh
ELΕλληνικά
ωορυζικό
wor-ee-zee-koh
ESEspañol
embrión
em-bree-ohn
FISuomi
embrioo
em-bree-oh
FRFrançais
embryon
em-bree-ohn
HUMagyar
embrio
em-bree-oh
IDBahasa Indonesia
embrio
em-bree-oh
ITItaliano
embrione
em-bree-oh-neh
MSBahasa Melayu
embrio
em-bree-oh
NLNederlands
embryo
em-bree-oh
NONorsk
embryo
em-bree-oh
PLPolski
embrion
em-bree-ohn
PTPortuguês
embrião
em-bree-aow
RORomână
embrion
em-bree-ohn
RUРусский
эмбрион
em-bree-on
SVSvenska
embryo
em-bree-oh
SWKiswahili
embryo
em-bree-oh
TRTürkçe
embrio
em-bree-oh
UKУкраїнська
ембріон
em-bree-on
VITiếng Việt
phôi thai
fway ty