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A forceps is a laboratory word for tweezers. Tweezers are used to pick up small objects with dexterity.
It is used by surgeons to grasp, manipulate or extract something.
For grabbing soft tissue or bowel
it is used to hold stronger organ or tissue
They're tweezers, big ones most of the time. And they're used to pick things up ... without using your fingers.