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Examples
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Incidentally, Mr. Kidd created the blood-crimson cover for Cormac McCarthy's bovie:
A Chip Off the Ol' Blockhead / J/Kiddin' . . . Judith Fitzgerald 2008
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Then it is quite easy using an electrosurge bovie type instrument that easily cuts the area with little or no blood involved.
Tongue Tied Dr. Dean Brandon 2006
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He had to have a special hot bovie knife inserted to into his nose to burn a hole in the congested tissues.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Long story short, PEAK Surgical wants its Peak PlasmaBlade, a cold cutter and coagulator, to be the bovie of the 21st century.
Medgadget 2009
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PEAK Surgical, maker of the innovative PlasmaBlade replacement of the bovie, has put a couple extensions for its device onto the market.
Medgadget 2009
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Well, you know: all those bovie induced burns and destroyed gloves that surgeons are regularly subjected to.
Medgadget 2009
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The system touts the precision of a standard scalpel and the cauterization abilities of the bovie, but without the accompanying burning of peripheral flesh and all the smoke.
Medgadget 2009
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PEAK Surgical, maker of the innovative PlasmaBlade replacement of the bovie, has put a couple extensions for its device onto the market.
Medgadget 2009
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The company cannot stand the 1920's technology behind the bovie, and how its thermal function destroys healthy patient tissue around the cut.
Medgadget 2009
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PEAK Surgical, Inc. from Palo Alto, CA hates the bovie cutter / coagulator.
Medgadget 2009
erinmckean commented on the word bovie
"a book that's turned into a movie" (from Aspendale Primary School, Melbourne)
December 9, 2015