Medical forceps or clamps

A medical forceps defining a handle from which extend two integral gripping members and comprising a core of metal and wherein the metal core of said gripping members is at least partially covered by a molded-on layer of plastics material in a sandwich-like manner, said layer of plastics being shaped to define the gripping members, wherein guiding means are provided on the plastic gripping members on both sides of a longitudinal median line, comprising on one side of said line a cylinder having a depression and, on the other, a cylinder from which a pin extends, the diameter of the pin corresponding substantially to that of the depression.