General surgerySuturing
Mayo-Hegar needle holder
Forceps-type instrument with a short, serrated jaw, without a cutting edge.
How it is used
Holding the suture needle to place stitches and tie knots.
Clinical tip
The needle is loaded at the tip, never at the center of the jaw.
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.