scal·pel

(skăl′pəl)

A small straight knife with a thin sharp blade used in surgery and dissection.

[Latin scalpellum, diminutive of scalper, scalprum, knife, from scalpere, to scratch, cut; see skel- in Indo-European roots.]

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scalpel

(ˈskælpəl)

(Surgery) a surgical knife with a short thin blade

[C18: from Latin scalpellum, from scalper a knife, from scalpere to scrape]

scalpellic adj

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scal•pel

(ˈskæl pəl)

n.

a small, light, usu. straight knife used in surgical and anatomical operations and dissections.

[1735–45; < Latin scalpellum, diminutive of scalprum tool for scraping or paring (derivative of scalpere to scratch; see castle)]

scal•pel′lic (-ˈpɛl ɪk) adj.

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Noun

scalpel - a thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery

surgical knife - a very sharp knife used in surgery

Translations

مِشْرَط، مِبْضَع

skalpel

skurîhnífur

skalpelis

disseksjonskniv skalpell

bisturi

skalpel

neşter

手术刀解剖刀

scalpel

[ˈskælpəl] N → escalpelo m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

scalpel

[ˈskælp^əl] n → scalpel m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

scalpel

n → Skalpell nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

scalpel

[ˈskælp/əl] n → bisturi m inv

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

scalpel

(ˈskӕlpəl) noun

a small knife with a thin blade, used in surgical operations.

scal·pel

n. escalpelo; bisturí, instrumento quirúrgico.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

scalpel

n bisturí m, escalpelo

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Then Philip took up the scalpel and the tweezers and began working while the other looked on.

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He stopped and let loose the practised scalpel of his tongue, not loudly.

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I began with a sheep, and killed it after a day and a half by a slip of the scalpel. I took another sheep, and made a thing of pain and fear and left it bound up to heal.

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And he counted on quiet intervals to be watchfully seized, for taking up the threads of investigation--on many hints to be won from diligent application, not only of the scalpel, but of the microscope, which research had begun to use again with new enthusiasm of reliance.

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When this ceremony was at an end, we immediately busied ourselves in repairing the damages which our subject had sustained from the scalpel. We sewed up the wound in his temple, bandaged his foot, and applied a square inch of black plaster to the tip of his nose.

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In spite, however, of his resemblance to the handsome Russian Emperor and the terrible Domitian, Isidore Baudoyer was nothing more than a political office-holder, of little ability as head of his department, a cut-and-dried routine man, who concealed the fact that he was a flabby cipher by so ponderous a personality that no scalpel could cut deep enough to let the operator see into him.

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His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.

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Next, with the scalpel placed on the medial surface of the earlobe to provide support, the biopsy punch is pressed firmly with a circular motion into the lobule, centered closely over the earlobe cleft.

Efficient closure of earlobe cleft with biopsy punch

You'll see the clinical team take a scalpel to the patient's chest.

Dinner and dissection; DINERS WANTED FOR HUMAN AUTOPSY EXPERIENCE

Dissection in group A was done using Harmonic Scalpel (HS).

COMPARISON OF MEAN BLOOD LOSS USING HARMONIC SCALPEL AND MONOPOLAR ELECTROCAUTRY IN MODIFIED RADICAL MASTECTOMY

Patients were equally divided into two groups; those who received incision with diathermy were placed in group A, and those who received incision with scalpel in group B.

Scalpel versus diathermy of midline skin incisions: comparison of mean pain scores on second post operative day