lancet
Americannoun
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a small surgical instrument, usually sharp-pointed and two-edged, for making small incisions, opening abscesses, etc.
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Architecture.
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a lancet arch.
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noun
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Also called: lance. a pointed surgical knife with two sharp edges
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short for lancet arch lancet window
Etymology
Origin of lancet
1375–1425; late Middle English lancette < Middle French. See lance 1, -et
Example Sentences
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A disposable lancet must pierce the skin, before drops of blood can be sucked into a pipette, mixed with a chemical and placed in the test cassette.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025
That's the reality for ants infected with the lancet liver fluke, a tiny parasitic flatworm.
From Science Daily • Sep. 17, 2023
Volunteers used a lancet to prick their fingertip and squeeze out droplets of blood that they deposited into sampling devices.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2021
The investigator, played by Shea Whigham, is a cubicle-bred bureaucrat questing after nobility; he picks up a yellow highlighter as if it were a knightly lancet.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2018
At the morgue he not only helped locate a distinctive wart on the dead man’s neck, he pulled out his own lancet and removed the wart himself, then matter-of-factly handed it to the coroner.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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