Gripper teeth for medical instruments

摘要

Gripper teeth on one part of a medical instrument, such as forceps, are symmetrically arranged on opposite sides of a median line, the teeth at one side of the median line being staggered by one half pitch relative to the teeth at the opposite side of the median line, whereby, the gripper teeth can interfit with mutually presented identically formed gripper teeth on another part of the medical instrument without the need to stagger the respective parts of the medical instrument, and, without the need to form the respective parts as non-identical parts.