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Backhaus towel clamp

Clip-type forceps with sharp, crossing curved points.

How it is used

Securing surgical drapes to one another and to the skin.

Sources

This entry is part of the Instriq catalog, researched and written per specialty from real web research -- never generated or invented without verification -- and reviewed skeptically and independently before publication. How this catalog is written.

Image: Olek Remesz (Orem), Wikimedia Commons. License CC BY-SA 3.0. View original source.

History

Added to the catalog on 2026-09-29.

Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.

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