lancet

IPA: ɫˈænsʌt

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.

Examples of "lancet" in Sentences

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 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.