lancet
- a small surgical instrument, usually sharp-pointed and two-edged, for making small incisions, opening abscesses, etc.
- Architecture.
- a lancet arch.
- a lancet window.
Origin of lancet
Related Words for lancet
bayonet, dagger, blade, sword, skewer, machete, sickle, cutter, scalpel, lance, steel, shank, point, edge, cutlass, sabre, switchblade, scythe, bolo, stilettoExamples from the Web for lancet
Contemporary Examples of lancet
And even The Lancet and Nature publish their share of shaky studies.
The Lancet should never have published it (many of the co-authors later withdrew their names from the paper).
According to studies published this week in The Lancet, aspirin radically reduces the risk of cancer.
The finding, published online in the journal The Lancet, lit up headlines this week.
The Lancet issued a formal retraction of the study soon after.
Historical Examples of lancet
Lancet windows: high, narrow windows of the earliest Gothic architecture.
Tom Brown at RugbyThomas Hughes
This same view was given in his Fifty-fifth Lecture, published in the "Lancet" in 1834.
On the Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin
But sickness and the lancet make one very tolerant of sermonizing.
St. Ronan's WellSir Walter Scott
He took a lancet from his pocket and opened a vein in the arm.
A Girl of the CommuneGeorge Alfred Henty
The lancet simile was not original, but one that he had heard somewhere.
Virgin SoilIvan S. Turgenev
lancet
- Also called: lance a pointed surgical knife with two sharp edges
- short for lancet arch, lancet window
Word Origin for lancet
Word Origin and History for lancet
late 14c., launcet, from Old French lancette "small lance" (12c.), diminutive of lance (see lance (n.)).
lancet
(lăn′sĭt)- A surgical knife with a short, wide, pointed double-edged blade, used especially for making punctures and small incisions.lance