Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small straight knife with a thin sharp blade used in surgery and dissection.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small light knife, which may be held like a pen, used in anatomical dissection and in surgical operations, having the back of the blade straight or nearly so, the edge more or less convex, and the point sharp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small straight
knife with a very sharpblade used forsurgery ,dissection andcraftwork .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And we do what we call scalpel ph pricing per community literally every week, where we track our sales are and do we need to push price or pull back on price.
unknown title 2011
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An obsidian scalpel is said to be many times sharper than a metal one.
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Proposition 26 offers a chain saw when a scalpel is required -- vote no.
Heather Taylor-Miesle: NRDC Action Fund Recommends: NO on Propositions 23 and 26; YES on 21 and 25 Heather Taylor-Miesle 2010
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Proposition 26 offers a chain saw when a scalpel is required - vote no.
Heather Taylor-Miesle: NRDC Action Fund Recommends: NO on Propositions 23 and 26; YES on 21 and 25 Heather Taylor-Miesle 2010
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Proposition 26 offers a chain saw when a scalpel is required -- vote no.
Heather Taylor-Miesle: NRDC Action Fund Recommends: NO on Propositions 23 and 26; YES on 21 and 25 Heather Taylor-Miesle 2010
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An obsidian scalpel is said to be many times sharper than a metal one.
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For example, Samuel Eliot Morrison cites the case of the wounded Japanese prisoner who grabbed the scalpel from the hand of the American surgeon trying to save his life and murdered him.
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Proposition 26 offers a chain saw when a scalpel is required -- vote no.
Heather Taylor-Miesle: NRDC Action Fund Recommends: NO on Propositions 23 and 26; YES on 21 and 25 Heather Taylor-Miesle 2010
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The Berkeley Earth team uses a statistical tool it calls a scalpel to cut out data when there is a gap.
Global Temperatures: All Over the Map Carl Bialik 2011
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Proposition 26 offers a chain saw when a scalpel is required -- vote no.
Heather Taylor-Miesle: NRDC Action Fund Recommends: NO on Propositions 23 and 26; YES on 21 and 25 Heather Taylor-Miesle 2010
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