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noun

Lancet n.

A surgical knife-like instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.

(Metal.) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.

Lancet arch (Arch.), a pointed arch, of which the width, or span, is narrow compared with the height.

Lancet architecture, a name given to a style of architecture, in which lancet arches are common; peculiar to England and 13th century.

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"Lancet" Quotes from Famous Books

... strong, and complained of sharp Pain of the Bowels, attended with a Fever, we used the Lancet freely, nor were we discouraged from bleeding in the Beginning by the low quick Pulse which often attended the Disorder; and we frequently found the Pulse rise as the Blood flowed from the Vein. ...

— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro

... absurd to reject the results of the microscope from the negative testimony of the naked eye. Knives are sufficient for the table and the market;—but for the purposes of science we must dissect with the lancet. ...

— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge

... had only irritated it, and driven the foreign substance farther still into the delicate nerves of the sensitive organ. At length a skilful young physician thought of a new expedient. He came one day without lancet and probes, and holding in his hand a small but powerful magnet, which he kept before the wounded eye, as close as it could bear. Immediately the piece of steel began to move toward the powerful attraction, and soon flew up to meet it and left the suffering eye completely ...

— Days of Heaven Upon Earth • Rev. A. B. Simpson

... nearly uniform as possible should be aimed at. The method described is one that has been in use by the writer for many years past, modified recently by the adoption of some of the recommendations of the Lancet Commission on the Standardisation of Disinfectants—particularly of the calculation for determining ...

— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre

... The body is elongate, lancet-shaped, with a tapering anterior extremity. The dorsal outline is concave through the bending of the anterior end, while the ventral outline presents an even, convex curve. The mouth lies slightly above the center of the body and marks the posterior limit of the ventral peristomial ...

— Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole - Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 • Gary N. Galkins

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