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See also: Lancet
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- launcet (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English launcet, from Old French lancete, a diminutive of lance.[1] By surface analysis, lance + -et.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /lɑːn.sɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US, Canada, Northern England) IPA(key): /læn.sɪt/
Noun
[edit]lancet (plural lancets)
- A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
- 2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 248:
- With a lancet, Håkan drained the slow blue blood from his leg, always fearing to find pus.
- A small, sterile single-use needle used to draw a drop of blood for testing, as with a glucometer.
- (metallurgy) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.[2]
- (architecture) A high narrow window, terminating in an arch acutely pointed, often double or triple, common in the first half of the 13th century.
- 2014, Richard Powers, Orfeo, W. W. Norton & Company, page 234:
- He looked away, into the cavernous space emptying of people. Up in the galleries and behind the choir, the wide window lancets were sheets of black.
Hyponyms
[edit]- (sharp surgical instrument): fleam
Derived terms
[edit]- lancet arch
- (ichthyological): lancetfish
Translations
[edit]surgical instrument
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Verb
[edit]lancet (third-person singular simple present lancets, present participle lanceting, simple past and past participle lanceted)
- To pierce with a lancet.
References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “lancet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Lancet”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]lancet
- Alternative form of launcet
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French lancette.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lancet m inan
Declension
[edit]Declension of lancet
Further reading
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