Editing Scissors (section)

===Medical===

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|-
! Type
! Image
! Description/purpose
|-
| [[Trauma shears]], or "tuff cuts"
| [[File:Aa_trauma_shears.jpg|150px]]
| for use in emergency medical response and rescue to cut off clothing
|-
| Dissection scissors
| 
| for cutting flesh in [[dissection]]{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}
|-
| [[Surgical scissors]]
| [[File:Mayo scissors 02.jpg|150px]]
| for cutting flesh in [[surgery]]<ref name="FullerFuller2012">{{cite book |last=Fuller |first=Joanna Kotcher |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DBU662BLit0C&pg=PA234 |title=Surgical Technology: Principles and Practice |last2=Fuller |first2=Joanna Ruth |publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-4557-2506-9 |page=234}}</ref>
|-
| [[Suture scissors]]
| [[File:Suture scissors on gray.png|150px]]
| for cutting [[Surgical suture|sutures]], the hook lifts the suture
|-
| [[Iris scissors]]
|
| for [[ophthalmic surgery]]{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}
|-
| [[Metzenbaum scissors]]
| [[File:Metzenbaum scissors.jpg|150px]]
| for delicate surgery{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}
|-
| [[Tenotomy scissors]]
| [[File:Tenotomy scissors.jpg|150px]]
| for delicate surgery<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bilsky |first1=Mark H. |last2=Vitaz |first2= Todd W.|year=2002|title=Surgical treatment of superior sulcus tumors with spinal and brachial plexus involvement|journal=[[Journal of Neurosurgery]]|volume=97|issue=3|pages=301–309|doi=10.3171/spi.2002.97.3.0301|pmid=12408383 }}</ref>
|-
| [[Mayo scissors]]
| [[File:Mayo surgical scissors.jpg|150px]]
| often for cutting [[fascia]]{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}
|-
| [[Bandage scissors]]
| [[File:Bandage Scissors.JPG|150px]]
| for cutting bandages<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Burnham|first=Preston J.|date=1958-10-11|title=New bandage scissors|journal=[[Journal of the American Medical Association]]|volume=168|issue=6|pages=760|doi=10.1001/jama.1958.63000060001011|pmid=13575196}}</ref>
|}