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ǁ Vectis. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. ǁ Vectis [L. vectis lever, crow-bar.]

1   † 1.  A lever. Obs.

2 1648.  Wilkins, Math. Magic, I. v. 33. Rather suppose B C, to be a Vectis or Leaver, towards the middle of which is the place of the fulciment.

3 1674.  Petty, Disc. Dupl. Proportion, 119. In the Fuze of a Watch, the greatest strength of the Spring is made to work upon the shortest Vectis.

4   2.  Surg. a. An obstetrical instrument employed as a lever to free the head of the child.

5 1790.  Med. Comm., II. 397. It is now near forty years since an account of the vectis or lever of Roonhuysen was published.

6 1822–7.  Good, Study Med. (1829), V. 199. If, at the same time, the head be lying clear on the perinæum, the vectis or forceps should be had recourse to.

7 1841.  Ramsbotham, Obstet. Med. & Surg., 314. Another instrument that has been much employed with the view of extracting the child living, is the vectis or lever.

8 1881.  Trans. Obstet. Soc. Lond., XXII. 78. I passed in a vectis, and by its aid as a lever … I brought down the second larger head and left arm.

9   b.  An instrument employed in operations on the eye.

10 1882.  Illustr. to Maw’s Price-current, 77 [Eye instruments.] Vectis, Taylor’s. Ibid. (1891), 42. Ophthalmoscope lamp, operation scissors,… and vectis.

11 1895.  Arnold & Sons’ Catal. Surg. Instrum., 158. Vectis (Taylor’s), for Extraction of Soft Lens.

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