lancet

[lan-sit, lahn-]

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noun

a small surgical instrument, usually sharp-pointed and two-edged, for making small incisions, opening abscesses, etc.
Architecture.
1. a lancet arch.
2. a lancet window.

Origin of lancet

1375–1425; late Middle English lancette < Middle French. See lance¹, -et

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Examples from the Web for lancet

Contemporary Examples

And even The Lancet and Nature publish their share of shaky studies.
How to Tell When a Scientific Study Is Total B.S.
Russell Saunders
August 22, 2014
The Lancet should never have published it (many of the co-authors later withdrew their names from the paper).
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Ilana Glazer
May 1, 2013
According to studies published this week in The Lancet, aspirin radically reduces the risk of cancer.
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Anneli Rufus
March 22, 2012
The finding, published online in the journal The Lancet, lit up headlines this week.
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Danielle Friedman
March 6, 2011
The Lancet issued a formal retraction of the study soon after.
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Adam Winkler
March 13, 2010

Historical Examples

Lancet windows: high, narrow windows of the earliest Gothic architecture.
Tom Brown at Rugby
Thomas Hughes
This same view was given in his Fifty-fifth Lecture, published in the "Lancet" in 1834.
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
But sickness and the lancet make one very tolerant of sermonizing.
St. Ronan's Well
Sir Walter Scott
He took a lancet from his pocket and opened a vein in the arm.
A Girl of the Commune
George Alfred Henty
The lancet simile was not original, but one that he had heard somewhere.
Virgin Soil
Ivan S. Turgenev

British Dictionary definitions for lancet

lancet

noun

Also called: lance a pointed surgical knife with two sharp edges
short for lancet arch, lancet window

Word Origin

C15 lancette, from Old French: small lance

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Word Origin and History for lancet

n.

late 14c., launcet, from Old French lancette "small lance" (12c.), diminutive of lance (see lance (n.)).

lancet in Medicine

lancet

(lăn′sĭt)

A surgical knife with a short, wide, pointed double-edged blade, used especially for making punctures and small incisions.lance

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Examples from the Web for lancet

Contemporary Examples

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

Lancet windows: high, narrow windows of the earliest Gothic architecture.

This same view was given in his Fifty-fifth Lecture, published in the "Lancet" in 1834.

But sickness and the lancet make one very tolerant of sermonizing.

He took a lancet from his pocket and opened a vein in the arm.

The lancet simile was not original, but one that he had heard somewhere.

lancet

Word Origin

Word Origin and History for lancet

n.

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Origin of lancet