retriever
n.n. a tool or person used to get something back from a difficult place. In surgery, it is a small instrument used to pull out small objects like stones or pieces of metal.
n. a tool or person used to recover something from a difficult or inaccessible location. In a surgical context, refers to a small instrument designed to extract foreign bodies or calculi from the body.
The surgeon used a small retriever to pull out the stone.
During the laparoscopic procedure, the doctor inserted a flexible retriever to remove the tiny metal fragment from the patient's abdomen.
Modern surgical techniques often rely on specialized retrievers to extract delicate tissue samples or foreign objects without causing further trauma to the surrounding organs.
From retrieve + -er.