Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Medicine A surgical knife with a short, wide, pointed double-edged blade, used especially for making punctures and small incisions.
- noun A lancet arch.
- noun A lancet window.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, one of the lower pair of piercing organs in the dipterous mouth; the scalpella: supposed by Kirby and Spence to represent the maxillæ of the haustellate mouth.
- noun A small lance or javelin.
- noun A small surgical instrument, sharp-pointed and generally two-edged, used in bloodletting and in opening tumors, abscesses, etc.
- noun In arch., a lancet-window; an arch of lancet shape.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A surgical knife-like instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.
- noun (Metal.) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
- noun (Arch.) a pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared with the height.
- noun a name given to a style of architecture, in which lancet arches are common; -- peculiar to England and 13th century.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A sharp, pointed, two-edged
surgical instrument used in venisection and for opening abscesses etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance
- noun a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The barber carried a piece of rusty hoop instead of a razor, and a pot of grease for lather, while the doctor, with a huge pill box and a knife, which he called his lancet, stood by to prescribe the treatment each patient was to receive.
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-- It is the pocket-knife, not the lancet, that is oftener called into requisition.
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Then how does the Philanthus, in her long contact with the butchered Bee, manage to protect herself against that lancet, which is bent upon avenging the murder?
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The lancet was the magician's wand of the dark ages of medicine.
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"The lancet is a weapon which annually slays more than the sword," says Dr. Tully.
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"The lancet is a weapon which annually slays more than the sword," says
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The lancet was the magician's wand of the dark ages of medicine.
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The lancet is the preferable instrument in the performance of this operation.
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The lancet is the anchor of hope in this disease; which must be repeated four or five times, or as often as the fever and difficulty of breathing increase, which is generally in the evening; antimonials, diluents, repeated small blisters about the chest, mucilage, pediluvium, warm bath.
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Blood sugar testing is usually done with a special needle called a lancet and an electronic glucose monitor.
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