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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.
Scalpel 

a surgical knife 12–15 cm long, used for cutting soft tissues. Devices that operate on the basis of some physics principle and that cut tissues are also called scalpels, for example, the ultrasonic scalpel and the laser-beam scalpel.
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Then Philip took up the scalpel and the tweezers and began working while the other looked on.
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He stopped and let loose the practised scalpel of his tongue, not loudly.
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I began with a sheep, and killed it after a day and a half by a slip of the scalpel.
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