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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scalpel
noun
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▪ In one later incarnation, she is depicted as severe, with a scalpel and a large pair of pincers.
▪ One of the guys takes a scalpel from a holster at his belt.
▪ Operating rooms come equipped with lasers and computers, not just the scalpels and saws of yesteryear.
▪ She then unbuckled her right, and stood up, dropping the scalpel into a pocket, just in case.
▪ The business comprises two operations, Steriseal, which distributes medical and opthalmic products, and Rotax, which supplies scalpels.
▪ The old sides can be removed by slicing through the silicone sealer with a razor or scalpel.
▪ There he was handed a smock and a scalpel and one of the new surgical stapling devices.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scalpel

Scalpel \Scal"pel\ (sk[a^]l"p[e^]l), n. [L. scalpellum, dim. of scalprum a knife, akin to scalpere to cut, carve, scrape: cf. F. scalpel.] (Surg.) A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scalpel

1742, from Latin scalpellum "a surgical knife," diminutive of scalprum "knife, chisel, tool for scraping or cutting," from scalpere "to carve, cut," related to sculpere "to carve," from PIE root *(s)kel- "to cut, cleave" (see scale (n.1)).

Wiktionary
scalpel

n. A small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork.

WordNet
scalpel

n. a thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery

Wikipedia
SCALPEL

SCALPEL (Small Contained-Area Laser Precision Energetic Load) is a laser-guided bomb produced by Lockheed Martin. The weapon is being developed from the Enhanced Laser Guided Training Round (E-LGTR) which is the training version of the Paveway II series of bombs. The rationale behind the system is to provide a light, low- collateral damage weapon which can utilise the infrastructure and platform integration already in place for the E-LGTR system. On 14 March 2010, the US Navy announced its intention to purchase Scalpel. The Navy completed some integration work in 2011 and the weapon was still self-funded as of 2016, but Scalpel could be ready for operations in “a year or two” depending if a launch customer commits extra funding and test range support.

Scalpel (disambiguation)

A scalpel is a surgical instrument used for cutting. It may also mean:

  • Laser scalpel, a scalpel which uses a laser, not a blade, for cutting;
  • scalpel (software) is an open source data carving tool.
  • SS-24 Scalpel, an intercontinental ballistic missile;
  • SCALPEL, is a laser-guided bomb produced by Lockheed Martin;
  • Scalpel (Transformers), a fictional character;
  • Scalpel, The University of Manchester Surgical Society;
  • "Scalpel", a song by Alice In Chains from The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
  • The Scalpel, the nickname of a skyscraper approved for construction at 52-54 Lime Street in London.

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.