enterotome

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An instrument for slitting intestines in dissection of the bowels, and for other purposes. It is a pair of scissors, with one blade longer than the other and hooked, so that the hook catches and holds the intestine while the instrument cuts.
2. n. A portion of the embryo of vertebrates containing those structures which later develop into the digestive tract.

Wiktionary

1. n. medicine A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Med.) A kind of scissors used for opening the intestinal canal, as in post-mortem examinations.