Vocabulary Word
Word: lancet
Definition: small surgical tool for making incisions
Definition: small surgical tool for making incisions
Sentences Containing 'lancet'
This same view was given in his Fifty-fifth Lecture, published in the "Lancet" in 1834.
'Well then,' returned my aunt, softened by the reply, 'how can you pretend to be wool-gathering, Dick, when you are as sharp as a surgeon's lancet?
"Bless my soul, and curse the foul fiend's," cried Bunger, stoopingly walking round Ahab, and like a dog, strangely snuffing; "this man's blood--bring the thermometer!--it's at the boiling point!--his pulse makes these planks beat!--sir!"--taking a lancet from his pocket, and drawing near to Ahab's arm.
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