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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Excision with the bistoury, or with scissors, may be tried when the polypus is near the orifice of the nostril, and particularly when it is not large at the base.
From The Dog by William Youatt
A probe-pointed bistoury to be introduced into the elbow-joint in front of the humerus, and then behind and carried upwards, so as to divide the upper capsular attachments in front and behind.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
Another advantage is the extreme ease with which disarticulation may be performed on emergency, no saw being required, and the ordinary bistoury of the pocket-case being quite sufficient for cutting the flaps.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
No time should be lost, and it should be by means of a small opening made with a narrow bistoury.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
When he distinctly feels the outline of the staff, he takes it in his left hand, and a short sharp-pointed bistoury in his right.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
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
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
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
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
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
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