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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Medicine A surgical knife with a short, wide, pointed double-edged blade, used especially for making punctures and small incisions. Also called lance.
  2. n. Architecture A lancet arch.
  3. n. Architecture A lancet window.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A small lance or javelin.
  2. n. A small surgical instrument, sharp-pointed and generally two-edged, used in bloodletting and in opening tumors, abscesses, etc. Lancets are known as gum-lancets, vaccinating-lancets, etc., according to their use, and their shapes are various. Ordinary lancets are fixed in a handle somewhat like that of a razor, sometimes three together on a single pin, opening in either direction.
  3. n. In arch., a lancet-window; an arch of lancet shape.
  4. n. In entomology, one of the lower pair of piercing organs in the dipterous mouth; the scalpella: supposed by Kirby and Spence to represent the maxillæ of the haustellate mouth.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venisection and for opening abscesses etc.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A surgical knife-like instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.
  2. n. (Metal.) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance
  2. n. a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions

Etymologies

  1. From Old French lancete diminutive of lance. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of lance, lance; see lance. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The barber carried a piece of rusty hoop instead of a razor, and a pot of grease for lather, while the doctor, with a huge pill box and a knife, which he called his lancet, stood by to prescribe the treatment each patient was to receive.”

    Owen Hartley; or, Ups and Downs A Tale of Land and Sea

  • “-- It is the pocket-knife, not the lancet, that is oftener called into requisition.”

    Hints for Lovers

  • “Then how does the Philanthus, in her long contact with the butchered Bee, manage to protect herself against that lancet, which is bent upon avenging the murder?”

    More Hunting Wasps

  • “The lancet was the magician's wand of the dark ages of medicine.”

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

  • “The lancet is a weapon which annually slays more than the sword," says Dr. Tully.”

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

  • “The lancet is a weapon which annually slays more than the sword," says”

    Medical Essays, 1842-1882

  • “The lancet is the preferable instrument in the performance of this operation.”

    The Dog

  • “The lancet is the anchor of hope in this disease; which must be repeated four or five times, or as often as the fever and difficulty of breathing increase, which is generally in the evening; antimonials, diluents, repeated small blisters about the chest, mucilage, pediluvium, warm bath.”

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life

  • “Blood sugar testing is usually done with a special needle called a lancet and an electronic glucose monitor.”

    All MayoClinic.com Topics

  • “The illustration shows the 'lancet' of _nepa_, the water-bug.”

    Chatterbox, 1905.

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  1. Gothic arch
  1. surgical knife

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  1. tourniquet
  2. trocar
  3. scalpel
  1. jackknife
  2. lance-like
  3. ice pick
  1. shootthat
  2. large-headed
  3. well-decorated
  1. tweezers
  2. ircop
  3. circular-headed
  1. depressors
  2. bistoury
  3. andnever

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Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Narragansett

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. vaccinator
  2. gum-lancet
  3. lancet-headed
  4. lancet-pointed
  5. lanceted
  6. lance
  7. fleam
  1. lancet
  2. surgeon-fish
  3. lancer
  4. lancet architecture
  5. eugerion
  6. thumb-lancet
  7. matronship
  1. cephalochordate
  2. bloodstick
  3. cultellus
  4. cutting-gage
  5. handsaw-fish
  6. lancet window
  7. lancelet
  1. lancet-shaped
  2. amphioxus
  3. piraya
  4. scarify
  5. surgeon
  6. arteriotomy
  7. blastoidea
  1. doctor-fish
  2. lancet arch
  3. lancet-fish
  4. lancet-window
  5. launch
  6. neb
  7. puncture
  1. pore-plates

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