bistoury
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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 the passage can not be sufficiently opened with the sound it may be incised by the hidden bistoury.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
The instruments required are sharp knives, preferably a heavy scalpel and a probe-pointed bistoury, an emasculator for large and mature animals, and surgeon's needles and suture material.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.
We went to the room and got the bistoury and the forceps given me by a medical friend before I left home.
From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Lange, Algot
If in the apex, by a V-shaped incision; if in the lateral regions, by a bold free incision with a probe-pointed bistoury round the tumour.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
It must be a reminiscence of departed bliss—a sigh wafted from the street-door of a furnished lodging-house in Bloomsbury, when our authors plied the bistoury at Guy's.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
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 Lange, Algot
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 Doyle, A. Conan
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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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 Aveling, Eleanor Marx
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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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