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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small straight knife with a thin sharp blade used in surgery and dissection.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A small light knife, which may be held like a pen, used in anatomical dissection and in surgical operations, having the back of the blade straight or nearly so, the edge more or less convex, and the point sharp. Such a knife is distinguished from a bistoury. The handle is light and thin, long enough to pass beyond the knuckles when the knife is held iu its usual position, and commonly of bone, ivory, or ebony. A special heavy form of scalpel is called a cartilage-knife.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Surg.) A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery

Etymologies

  1. Latin scalpellum, from scalprum ("knife"), from scalpere ("to cut"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin scalpellum, diminutive of scalper, scalprum, knife, from scalpere, to scratch, cut. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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