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Answer for the clue "A surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin ", 9 letters:
dermatome

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Etymology 1 n. An instrument used surgically to remove a thin slice of skin for grafting Etymology 2 n. 1 An area of skin which is innervated by afferent nerve fibers coming to a single posterior spinal root 2 The cutis plate.

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n. a surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dermatome may refer to: Dermatome (anatomy) , an area of skin that is supplied by a single pair of dorsal roots Dermatome (instrument) , a surgical instrument used to produce thin slices of skin Dermatome, the portion of the embryonic paraxial mesoderm, ...