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A surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade
Answer for the clue "A surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade ", 6 letters:
lancet
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Word definitions for lancet in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., launcet , from Old French lancette "small lance" (12c.), diminutive of lance (see lance (n.)).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lancet \Lan"cet\, n. [F. lancette, dim. of lance lance. See Lance .] A surgical knife-like instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc. (Metal.) An iron bar used for tapping a melting ...
Usage examples of lancet.
The aisle fronts have upper storeys ornamented with blind arches and an upper row of small lancet windows.
Kutsi Merc unpacked, Ave stood at the lancet window and looked out on an alien world.
But every body was subject to storms of such magnitude the doctors were rendered helpless, despite their lancets, their clysters, their poultices, their potions, their magical herbs.
The balustrade was ornamented with repetitive cusped lancets and a trefoil frieze.
Figure 76 shows a case of ichthyosis cornea pictured in the Lancet, 1850.
Sir Samuel Baker is accredited in The Lancet with giving an account in Latin text of the modus operandi of a practice among the Nubian women of removing the clitoris and nymphae in the young girl, and abrading the adjacent walls of the external labia so that they would adhere and leave only a urethral aperture.
The smallest is also of a very odd shape, being almost as narrow as a lancet window, with, however, a rather obtuse arch.
That an English medical journal like the Lancet should denounce vivisection cruelties, or that a reputable London physician should experiment on his patients with various poisons, seemed to Dr.
Lancet and the British Medical Journal that the Vivisection Act was passed?
It is probable that no stronger denunciation of the cruelty of vivisection ever appeared than that contained in the leading editorial of the London Lancet of August 22, 1863.
A week later the Lancet again discusses the subject always, it should be remembered, as the advocate of vivisection, provided the practice be carried on under humane restrictions.
In The Lancet of December 10, 1881, there is an account of a vulcanite tooth-plate which was swallowed and passed forty-two hours later.
Monsorlit took a lancet and ampul and deftly took a blood sample from the ugly man.
This school, founded by Wooster Beach, instituted the most strenuous opposition to the employment of mercury, antimony, the blister, and the lancet.
On either side of the rose window are small lancet windows with smaller blind arches on each side of them.