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Bistoury   Listen
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Bistoury  n.  (pl. bistouries)  A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.






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"Bistoury" Quotes from Famous Books



... have been an amusing sight for our friends, had they been able to see us spread out our bistoury, our pincers, and three pairs of scissors, one with gold branches, on the table of this hut. The commissaire praised our philanthropy, the women watched us in awed silence, and the tallow candle melted and ran down the iron ...
— Over Strand and Field • Gustave Flaubert



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