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scalpel, n.|ˈskælpəl|
[ad. L. scalpell-um, -us, dim. of scalper, scalprum. Cf. F. scalpel (in 16th c. scalpelle), G. skalpel.]
A small light knife used in surgical and anatomical operations.
1742Simson in Edin. Med. Ess. V. i. 445 The Scalpel is about an Inch in length, and a third in Breadth. 1879T. Bryant Pract. Surg. II. 5 Shaving the redundant mass off the cartilage with a scalpel. 1893W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. (ed. 2) II. 333 If a scalpel be passed over the surface, it removes a little pyo-lymph.
attrib.1742Simson in Edin. Med. Ess. V. i. 447, I contrived the Scalpel-ring I have sent you the draught of, which may be used safely with the Uterus at any Distance.
b. fig.
1818Scott Rob Roy xxi, Whoever should happen to over⁓hear their character discussed in their own servants'-hall, must prepare to undergo the scalpel of some such anatomist. 1851H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. xi. (1855) 339 It demands, too, for this serious service the most acute intellectual scalpel which the metaphysician can handle.
Hence ˈscalpel v. trans., to cut with a scalpel; scalˈpellic a., involving the use of the scalpel.
1748tr. Vegetius' Distempers of Horses 53 Let the whole Circumference of the Soal of the Hoof be scalpelled or cut with a Lancet. 1877Ruskin Wks. IV. 155 note, Ocular and passionate study of nature [as opposed to] telescopic, scalpellic and dispassionate. |