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scalpel

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scalpel
a surgical knife with a short thin blade

scalpel [′skal·pəl]
(design engineering)
A small, straight, very sharp knife (or detachable blade for a knife), used for dissecting.


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Then Philip took up the scalpel and the tweezers and began working while the other looked on.
He stopped and let loose the practised scalpel of his tongue, not loudly.
I began with a sheep, and killed it after a day and a half by a slip of the scalpel.
 
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