bistoury
Americannoun
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bistouries
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of bistoury
1745–50; < French bistouri, Middle French bistorin < Upper Italian bistorino, for Italian pistorino pertaining to Pistoia, a city famous for its cutlery
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If it feels tight, the internal pillar of the ring should then be cautiously divided on the finger by a probe-pointed narrow bistoury, in a direction parallel to the linea alba.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
A few drops of serum will then escape, and the glistening surface of the bowel be exposed; the finger should then be introduced at the opening, and the incision enlarged by a probe-pointed bistoury.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
This done, a clean incision is made with the bistoury or the scalpel in the direction of the vessels.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
Bedside tray should contain: Duplicate cannula Scalpel Trousseau dilator Hemostat Dressing forceps Sterile vaseline Scissors Tape Probe Gauze sponges Gauze squares Probe-pointed curved bistoury.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
Perhaps the most heroic consists in opening the joint capsule with a bistoury or with the actual cautery.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
Thermometers, hypodermic syringes, bistouries and spatulas were scattered thickly about, both on the mantelpiece and on the central table on either side of the sloping desk.
From The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure by A. Conan Doyle
His glance, more penetrating than his bistouries, looked straight into your soul, and dissected every lie athwart all assertions and all reticences.
From Madame Bovary by Eleanor Marx Aveling
Thermometers, hypodermic syringes bistouries and spatulas were scattered about both on the mantelpiece and on the central table on either side of the sloping desk.
From Round the Red Lamp by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Then he cleared all the little instruments out of his pocket-case—the scissors, the forceps, the bistouries, the lancets—and he laid them all out beside the stethoscope, to make as good a show as possible.
From Round the Red Lamp by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A hypodermic outfit, quinine, and a few bistouries completed my primitive medical department.
From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Algot Lange
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