Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A surgical instrument for scraping bones.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A surgeons' instrument for scraping bones.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of fishes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) An instrument for scraping bones.
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- noun A surgical
instrument used to scrapebones .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek xūstēr, scraper, from xūein, to scrape.]
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From Ancient Greek ξυστήρ ("xustēr"), from ξύω ("scrape").
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mercy commented on the word xyster
Greek; a surgical instrument for scraping bones.
January 4, 2009