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Scalpel   /skˈælpəl/   Listen
Scalpel

noun
1.
A thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery.





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"Scalpel" Quotes from Famous Books



... analysis genius is inexplicable. It is what it is, because it is. It might have been different, no doubt, but it is not. It is its own excuse for being; and, for all that we can say to the contrary, it is its own cause, sufficient unto itself. Even if we had Sainte-Beuve's scalpel, we could not surprise ...
— The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet


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