bistoury
Americannoun
plural
bistouriesnoun
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
Example Sentences
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"Lancet, probe, trocar, bistoury, tourniquet,"—mentioning the collection, while he passed his fingers affectionately along the small sharp knives.
From Idle Hour Stories by Potts, Eugenia Dunlap
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 Michener, Charles B.
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
The secretary took the bistoury from the bowl containing the sublimate and handed it to me with a bow.
From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Lange, Algot
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.
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