lancet

lancet
A surgical knife with a short, wide, sharp-pointed, two-edged blade. [Fr. lancette]
- gum l. a l. used for incising the gum over the crown of an erupting tooth.
- spring l. a l. with a handle containing a blade that is activated by a spring.
- thumb l. a l. with short flat blade that folds back, when closed, between two plates of the handle.

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lan·cet 'lan(t)-sət n a sharp-pointed and commonly two-edged surgical instrument used to make small incisions (as in a vein or a boil) called also lance

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n.
a broad two-edged surgical knife with a sharp point.

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lan·cet (lanґsət) [L. lancea lance] a small, pointed, two-edged surgical knife.

Lancet.


Medical dictionary. 2011.

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