electric needle
Americannoun
noun
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“Actually,” he said, the electric needle falling silent in his hand, “it’s my shoulders and neck that bother me most.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2012
Dermatologists are busy enough today, excising keratoses and skin tumors by surgery, freezing them, burning them out with an electric needle or bombarding them with radiation or laser beams.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the President also: > Had two small, wartlike growths removed from his right hand with an electric needle by a pair of Washington dermatologists in his White House bedroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Pittsburgh's Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat Hospital, a surgeon picked up a hot electric needle one day last week and went to work on Mayor David L. Lawrence's left eye.
From Time Magazine Archive
I watched as the man ahead of me had letters and numbers carved into his skin in black ink with an electric needle.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
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