Balfour US 5-1171-BR A hook is a surgical instrument that allows a surgeon to separate either the active edges of a surgical wound or surgery or withhold based on lying to organs and tissues, so that body parts can be accessed under the cut.

Balfour US
5-1171-BR
A hook is a surgical instrument that allows a surgeon to separate either the active edges of a surgical wound or surgery or withhold based on lying to organs and tissues, so that body parts can be accessed under the cut. The two are each in many different shapes, sizes and designs. The general term retractor usually describes a simple handheld tool steel fitted a curved, angled or curved blade has a comfortable grip. That if holds in place the desired position of a particular region of tissue can hook these simple hand-held, clamped in situ, or suspended at the end of a robotic arm. The term retractor is also informally used, although, at the (also known as breast-hook or distractors) different, with hand crank devices such as wound retractor with which surgeons of all force push apart tissue, described in order to obtain the exposure.