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Barraquer needle holder

Spring-type needle holder, without finger rings, with a very fine jaw and millimetric precision.

How it is used

Precision suturing of the cornea, sclera and conjunctiva in ophthalmic microsurgery.

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.

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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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