The vascular atraumatic forceps (DeBakey)were widely used for grasping vascular tissue and causing minimal damage to the vessels. This invention led to the development of the Dacron aortic graft for the repair of aortic aneurysms. Around the mid 1900s, Alfred Washington Adson, a pioneer in neuroscience at Mayo Clinic, invented Adson forceps that allows the lifting and removal of neural tissue. Hemostat/clamp
Hemostats are forceps that aim to obliterate the lumen of vessels and to obtain adherence to the crushed surfaces and vascular hemostasis. Originally, this notion of crushing did not exist and arterial catch forceps simply clamped vessels temporarily prior to ligature or cautery. In 1867, Eugene Koeberle, who accidentally found arterial forceps with a catch closure came away spontaneously without the need for ligature, and invented “pince hémostatique,” which have pin and hole catches. In 1882, the Kocher clamp was created by Emil Theodor Kocher, who significantly contributed to thyroidectomies (removal of all or a part of the thyroid gland) and decompressive craniotomy. This invention decreases the risk of contamination while cutting dense tissue. Later, Dr. William Henry Welch and William Stewart Halsted contributed to the invention of clamps and Halsted-Mosquito Hemostats, which were used to clamp small blood vessels.
Compound may refer to:

Architecture and built environments
Compound (enclosure), a cluster of buildings having a shared purpose, usually inside a fence or wall
Compound (fortification), a version of the above fortified with defensive structures
Compound (migrant labour), a hostel for migrant workers such as those historically connected with mines in South Africa
The Compound, an area of Palm Bay, Florida, US
Komboni or compound, a type of slum in Zambia

Government and law
Composition (fine), a legal procedure in use after the English Civil War
Committee for Compounding with Delinquents, an English Civil War institution that allowed Parliament to compound the estates of Royalists
Compounding treason, an offence under the common law of England
Compounding a felony, a previous offense under the common law of England

Linguistics
Compound (linguistics), a word that consists of more than one radical element
Compound sentence (linguistics), a type of sentence made up of two or more independent clauses and no subordinate (dependent) clauses

Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology and medicine
Compounding, the mixing of drugs in pharmacy
Compound fracture, a complete fractures of bone where at least one fragment has damaged the skin, soft tissue or surrounding body cavity
Compound leaf, a type of leaf being divided into smaller leaflets

Chemistry and materials science
Chemical compound, combination of two or more elements
Plastic compounding, a method of preparing plastic formulations

Vehicles and engines
Compound engine, a steam engine in which steam is expanded through a series of two or three cylinders before exhaust
Turbo-compound engine, an internal combustion engine where exhaust gases expand through power-turbines
Compounding pressure, a method in which pressure in a steam turbine is made to drop in a number of stages

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics
Compound bow, a type of bow for archery
Polyhedral compound, a polyhedron composed of multiple polyhedra sharing the same centre

Other uses
Common names
Compound (music), an attribute of a time signature
Compound interest, in finance, unpaid interest that is added to the principal
Compound chocolate, an inexpensive chocolate substitute that uses cocoa but excludes cocoa butter

Proper names
The Compound (book), a 2008 young adult novel by S. A. Bodeen
Compound (company), a venture capital firm previously known as Metamorphic Ventures
Eisenhuth Horseless Vehicle Company, or Compound, a former US automobile manufacturer

See also
Composite (disambiguation)