Surgeon's tool

Usage examples of scalpel.

And at times felt almost like the amputee who consciously knows a limb has been lost but continues to feel the sensations that no scalpel can sever.

The only difference between us and the Aztecs is one of method: we have anesthesia, we have antisepsis and asepsis, we use scalpels instead of obsidian blades to cut out the hearts of our victims.

Scalpels, syringes, stethoscope, and excruciator spilled onto the blood-stained tiles, adding to the clatter.

He bought needle forceps, a nylon suture kit, surgical needles, scalpels, drips, antihistamines, hydrocortisone, penicillin tablets, some powdered antibiotics and three tins of vitamin B.

Ahead of Michaelmas were storage cubes, work surfaces, instrumentation panels, sterile racks of teasing needles, forceps and scalpels, microtomes, a bank of micromanipulative devices all shrouded beneath transparent flexible dust hoods or safe behind glassy panels.

Dmitriy Karamazov champion of the Ideal, is a symbol of all positivist scientists, men who, like the seminarist Rakitin, only believe in chemistry, the scalpel, and materialist determinism.

The other doctors watching with Frank seemed amused by the way Stant operated: he held the X ray up to his rear pair of eyes with his back hand, and watched the operation with his front eyes, wielding the scalpel with his front hand.

The sternal retractor, the scalpels, the hemostats, the table, the floor, all covered in an unbelievable amount of dried blood.

Meredith Thring, head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of London, predicts that we shall have surgery by robot hands and electronic scalpels to meet the demands of increasingly delicate and intricate forms of surgery.

They come equipped with a scalpel, suction pump, and tourniquet, you know.

And yes, the mirror still showed her a woman of fifty-six, unretouched by the scalpel.

He went back to the cupboard, laid out scalpels, clamps, sutures on a cloth-covered tray and carried them back to the bed.

Using a scalpel, Corso slit the pants open far enough to decide that there had been no other injuries.

He ended up breaking free and taking the ride coiled in a ball on the floor of the vehicle, threatening lawsuits, decertification, and free vasectomies with a dull scalpel on any man who touched him.

Using a combination of laparoscopic techniques, nanotech robotic drones injected into their bloodstreams, and traditional scalpel work, the urgent structural repairs were done in nineteen hours of surgery for Sarah and sixteen for Don.