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Red quadriceps muscles from one leg of each animal were removed and freeze clamped as rapidly as possible with tongs that had been cooled in liquid N 2 . Samples were stored at -70°C for later use.
The tongs consist of two long poles with rakes affixed and crossed at the nether end, rakes many-toothed, curved and facing each other so as to clench the catch of hard-shelled clams.
So the doctor inserts metal tongs, physically crushes the head, and dismembers the fetus.
It is muscle-building toil, this opening and closing of the poles, and it has earned for the tongs the name East Greenwich accordions . The only music they produce is the whistle of the tongers on the way to the bank.