Main > Medical terms> Brown decapitation hook

Brown decapitation hook

Brown decapitation hook (G. A. Braun, Austrian gynecologist, 1829-1911; decapitatio, lat. de-– the prefix designating cancellation, department + lat. caput, sort. capitis case – the head; synonym: Brown a hook) – the tool which is used at operation of decapitation to destruction of a backbone of a fruit in the form of the blunt retractor about 30 cm long bent at an acute angle on which one end there is a cross handle, and on opposite – a small thickening.

 
Whether you know that:

The American scientists made experiments on mice and came to a conclusion that water-melon juice prevents development of atherosclerosis of vessels. One group of mice drank usual water, and the second – water-melon juice. As a result vessels of the second group were free from cholesteric plaques.