What does Lancet mean?
Definitions for Lancet
ˈlæn sɪt, ˈlɑn-lancet
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Lancet.
Princeton's WordNet
lancet arch, lancetnoun
an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance
lancet, lancenoun
a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
Wiktionary
lancetnoun
A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venisection and for opening abscesses etc.
Etymology: From lancete diminutive of lance.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Lancetnoun
A small pointed chirurgical instrument.
Etymology: lancette, French.
I gave vent to it by an apertion with a lancet, and discharged white matter. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.
It differeth from a vein, which in an apparent blue runneth along the body, and if dexterously pricked with a lancet emitteth a red drop. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errors. b. iii.
Hippocrates saith, blood-letting should be done with broad lancets or swords, in order to make a large orifice: the manner of opening a vein then was by stabbing or pertusion, as in horses. John Arbuthnot, on ancient Coins.
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lancet
A lancet is a small, sharp instrument, often used in medicine for making small incisions or punctures in the skin to extract blood or other body fluids. They are commonly used by diabetics for blood glucose monitoring, or by health professionals for other medical testing.
Webster Dictionary
Lancetnoun
a surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc
Lancetnoun
an iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace
Etymology: [F. lancette, dim. of lance lance. See Lance.]
Entomology
Lancet
indiscriminately applied to any piercing mouth structure.
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Anagrams for Lancet »
cantle
cental
tancel
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Lancet in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Lancet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of Lancet in a Sentence
The Lancet did very unbiased work despite some of the political pressures that may have been out there.
Right from the beginning, public perception favored lab escape, that perception was very much shaped by a letter that appeared in The Lancet and derided lab escape as a conspiracy theory and said that lab escape was the way this virus had emerged and we should stand shoulder to shoulder with our Chinese colleagues on the forefront of fighting the disease.
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
Epidemiologists who are widely respected from China who have published a study in the international journal The Lancet have demonstrated that several of the original cases did not have any contact with that food market, the virus went into that food market before it came out of that food market.
I don't recall The Lancet Journal study being retracted.I might have at the time heard that it was retracted, but it wasn't the only paper that was on hydroxychloroquine, my — I mean, I'm thinking back, then, my — my opinion of the effect of hydroxychloroquine was based on accumulating data from a number of studies. I don't recall specifically what those studies are now.
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- ланцетBulgarian
- llancetaCatalan, Valencian
- LanzetteGerman
- αμφίστομο νυστέρι, νυστέριGreek
- lancetoEsperanto
- lancetaSpanish
- lansettiFinnish
- æðrajarnFaroese
- lancetteFrench
- նշտարArmenian
- lancetoIdo
- lancettaItalian
- メスJapanese
- lancetDutch
- tsahNavajo, Navaho
- lancetPolish
- lancetaPortuguese
- ланцетRussian
- bisturiAlbanian
- lansettSwedish
- neşterTurkish
- ланцетUkrainian
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