with opposed ends and top and bottom faces and having one end thereof fastened adjacent the center of a length of resilient surgical tape the other end of the body member being constructed and arranged to receive and releasably maintain one end of said tape in a selected adjusted position to entrap and occlude a blood vessel between the bottom face of the body member and said one end of the tape in the preferred form the bottom face comprises a large resilient pad and said face forms an obtuse angle with the length of tape when the latter is in an extended position application_number US 56990775 A description referring to the drawing more particularly by reference numerals the number 10 indicates one form of a novel vessel occluding instrument embodying the teachings of the present invention which includes an elongated body member 12 with a longitudinally extending axis a and a length of resilient tape 14 the body member is made of a substantially rigid yet slightly resilient material preferably plastic and is elongated and generally rectangular in cross section with top and bottom surfaces 16 and 18 respectively opposed side walls 20 and first and second rounded ends 22 and 24 respectively each of the side walls contains a longitudinally extending recess 26 which extends from adjacent the first end 22 to adjacent the second end 24 a first passageway 28 extends through the body member between the top and bottom surfaces adjacent to the first end 22 substantially normal to the longitudinal axis a and a second passageway 30 extends from the first end 22 and intersects the passageway at approximately a 90 u00b0 angle i e in general alignment with said.