# Metzenbaum scissors

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A kind of surgical scissors for cutting delicate tissue and blunt dissection, having a relatively long shank-to-blade ratio.

## Etymology
They were designed by the American surgeon Myron Firth Metzenbaum (1876–1944).

## Source
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