lancet
IPA: ɫˈænsʌt
noun
- A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
- A small, sterile single-use needle used to draw a drop of blood for testing, as with a glucometer.
- (metallurgy) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
- (architecture) A high narrow window, terminating in an arch acutely pointed, often double or triple, common in the first half of the 13th century.
- A surname.
verb
- To pierce with a lancet.
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Examples of "lancet" in Sentences
- I would prefer spear to lancet.
- Lancet is not used that much in this region.
- The three lancet windows symbolize the Trinity.
- Both the Lancet and the BMJ have specialist publications.
- Look at the lancet and you will find nothing of the sort
- The prince grabbed the lancet to fight against the dragon.
- Above the gallery are the lancet windows of the clerestory.
- All of the sources criticising the lancet are primary sources.
- I was impressed that how the lancet can be that much effective.
- The lancet was the magician's wand of the dark ages of medicine.
- "The lancet is a weapon which annually slays more than the sword," says
- The church retains most of the lancet windows inserted during the rebuilding.
- The lancet is the preferable instrument in the performance of this operation.
- "The lancet is a weapon which annually slays more than the sword," says Dr. Tully.
- -- It is the pocket-knife, not the lancet, that is oftener called into requisition.
- Blood sugar testing is usually done with a special needle called a lancet and an electronic glucose monitor.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.