scalpel

IPA: skˈæɫpʌɫ

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

Examples of "scalpel" in Sentences

An obsidian scalpel is said to be many times sharper than a metal one.
Proposition 26 offers a chain saw when a scalpel is required - vote no.
Proposition 26 offers a chain saw when a scalpel is required -- vote no.
The Berkeley Earth team uses a statistical tool it calls a scalpel to cut out data when there is a gap.
And we do what we call scalpel ph pricing per community literally every week, where we track our sales are and do we need to push price or pull back on price.
For example, Samuel Eliot Morrison cites the case of the wounded Japanese prisoner who grabbed the scalpel from the hand of the American surgeon trying to save his life and murdered him.