Straight Mayo Scissors is used for cutting sutures and ligatures or trimming the skin around injury or wound.

Curved Mayo Scissors is used to cut heavy tissue such as fascia, muscle, uterus, and breast.
Metzenbaum (Metz) Scissors is used for dissecting delicate tissues.
Potty’s Scissors is a fine scissors used for creating incisions in the blood vessels.
Iris Scissors is used for fine dissection and cutting fine suture.
DeBakey Forceps is a nontoothed dissecting forceps used for grasping fine tissue and blood vessels.
Dunhills Forceps is a small forceps with curves serrated ends, often used to grasp vessels prior to ligation.
Adson Forceps is a toothed tissue forceps used in holding and manipulating delicate tissues.
Allis Forceps used to hold or grasp heavy tissues.
Bonney Forceps is a heavy forceps used for holding thick tissue.
Babcock Forceps is a non-perforating and toothless forceps that is used to grasp and hold the delicate tissue.
Kocher Clamp is used to hold heavy tissue.
Mosquito Forceps used as a hemostat for small blood vessels.
Kelly Forceps is used for clamping large blood vessels and manipulating heavy tissue.
Bulldog clamps are used to grip and hold sutures, tissues or vessels and is widely used in coronary artery bypass surgery
to stop the blood flow.
Towel Clips is used to secure towels or drapes in place, however it can also be used to grasp tissue if required.
Deaver Retractor is used to retract deep abdominal or chest incisions.
Richardson Retractor is used for holding back multiple layers of deep tissue.
Army-Navy Retractor is used to retract shallow or superficial incisions.
Malleable or ribbon-retractor is used to retract deep wounds. It may be bent to various shapes to assist in holding back
tissue.
Weitlaner Retractor is a self-retainer retractor used for holding back tissue and exposing a surgical site.
Needle Holder is used for holding needles.

Cheatle Forceps are used to remove sterilized instruments from autoclave.