volsella

Definitiones

1. A pair of tweezers
   declension-1, feminine
2. A kind of forceps
   declension-1, feminine
3. Equivalent to 'Tweezers': A small pincerlike instrument, usually made of metal, used for handling or picking up small objects (such as postage stamps), plucking out (plucking)...

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Exempla

“Protinus autem ubi plus sanguinis [e gingiva] profluit, scire licet⟳, aliquid ex osse fractum esse. Ergo specillo conquirenda est testa, quae recessit, et volsella protrahenda est.”

However, when a lot of blood immediately flows out [of the gum], you can tell that some part of the bone has been broken off. So the fragment that sank in should be found with a probe and pulled out with a pair of tweezers.

“Cum... Nec vivat ullus in tuo pilus crure, Purgentque saevae cana labra volsellae...”

When ... no hair lives on your leg, and cruel tweezers cleanse your gray-haired lips [of hair]...

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