Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the neck or caulicle of the germinating embryo.
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Examples
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I think this is a time we need a scapel not a chain saw. bailFail
Health care proposals need more work, health secretary says 2009
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If you now choose to have a second cone biopsy instead of a hysterectomy, do discuss the option of having the cone biopsy performed with a scapel instead of a LEEP procedure.
Patricia Yarberry Allen: What to Do if You Have Genital HPV Patricia Yarberry Allen 2010
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If you now choose to have a second cone biopsy instead of a hysterectomy, do discuss the option of having the cone biopsy performed with a scapel instead of a LEEP procedure.
Patricia Yarberry Allen: What to Do if You Have Genital HPV Patricia Yarberry Allen 2010
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If you now choose to have a second cone biopsy instead of a hysterectomy, do discuss the option of having the cone biopsy performed with a scapel instead of a LEEP procedure.
Patricia Yarberry Allen: What to Do if You Have Genital HPV Patricia Yarberry Allen 2010
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Although we can never be sure that a course of action will have the effect we intend e.g. a surgeons scapel might lead to death even though the intent was to help. if we offer an action with an intent of helping, not harming, we have done our best.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.: Willful Ignorance: Penn State, Don't Ask - Don't Tell, and Others Ph.D. Susan Smalley 2011
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When I put myself into the hands of a surgeon, I don't want to hear which scapel goes where, or which tube gets inserted into which hole.
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It was from the first when the "cleaner and cured of desires" argument became socially unacceptable that, the medical communities 'attitude largely changed to, "Oh, well, then it doesn't do that --- and get me my scapel!"
In Defense of the Hysterectomy aka TBTAM 2007
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No matter what trouble Wikus gets into, there is a scapel lying on a table, or a mechanical exo-skeleton that practically begs him to get inside and use.
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It would seem that the federal government could regulate marital intercourse using a condom or an abortion using a scapel which has previously passed through interstate commerce — after all, statements expressly contrasting private matters from interstate commerce have never been repudiated, not to mention Griswold v.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Tenth Circuit split on gun ban for misdemeanants: 2009
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Or not, but babies are fun...unless they come out of a scapel wound waving a little banner.
Happy Labor Day! 2009
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