lancet

n.

1. Medicine. A surgical knife with a short, wide, pointed double-edged blade, used especially for making punctures and small incisions. Also called lance.
2. Architecture.
   1. A lancet arch.
   2. A lancet window.

[Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of lance, lance. See lance.]

First Pointed Gothic tall, narrow window-aperture with a pointed arched head, either a single insert in a wall or one of several lights of similar shape in a window.

[Co]

A tall narrow window with a pointed top.

A small, pointed, two-edged surgical knife.

• l. fluke — see dicrocoelium dendriticum.

IN BRIEF: A sharp two-edged surgical instrument.

The nurse used a lancet to extract just a drop of blood from the patient's finger.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - lancet, sneppert

Nederlands (Dutch)
lancet (medisch), lancetboog/-venster

Français (French)
n. - (Méd) lancette, bistouri

Deutsch (German)
n. - (Med.) Lanzette

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (αμφίστομο) νυστέρι

Italiano (Italian)
bisturi

Português (Portuguese)
n. - lanceta (f), bisturi (m) (Med.)

Русский (Russian)
ланцет, стрельчатая арка, сводчатое окно

Español (Spanish)
n. - lanceta, ojiva

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - lansett

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
柳叶刀, 刺血针, 尖头窗, 桃尖拱

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 柳葉刀, 刺血針, 尖頭窗, 桃尖拱

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 란세트 , 피침

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ランセット

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مبضع, مفصد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אזמל מנתחים‬

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