Plural of embryulcus; small hook-like or curved instruments used in obstetrics to extract a fetus.
From Latin embryulcus, derived from embryo and ulcus (a hooked surgical instrument). The plural uses the Latin -i ending.
Embryulci are among medicine's strangest instruments—curved hooks designed to grip a fetus for extraction when nothing else would work, representing desperate pre-anesthesia obstetrics.
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