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LANCET
lancet, lance
(noun) a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lancet (plural lancets)
A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
A small, sterile single-use needle used to draw a drop of blood for testing, as with a glucometer.
(metallurgy) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
(architecture) A high narrow window, terminating in an arch acutely pointed, often double or triple, common in the first half of the 13th century.
Hyponyms
• (sharp surgical instrument): fleam
Verb
lancet (third-person singular simple present lancets, present participle lanceting, simple past and past participle lanceted)
To pierce with a lancet.
Anagrams
• cantel, cantle, cental
Proper noun
Lancet (plural Lancets)
A surname.
Anagrams
• cantel, cantle, cental
Source: Wiktionary
Lan"cet, n. Etym: [F. lancette, dim. of lance lance. See Lance.]
1. A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.
2. (Metal.)
Definition: An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace. Knight. Lancet arch (Arch.), a pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared with the height.
– Lancet architecture, a name given to a style of architecture, in which lancet arches are common; -- peculiar to England and 13th century.
РLancet fish. (Zo̦l.) (a) A large, voracious, deep-sea fish (Alepidosaurus ferox), having long, sharp, lancetlike teeth. (b) The doctor, or surgeon fish.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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