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Meanings of lancet in English

Spanish
lanceta

An acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance.

        lanceta
        Portuguese
        lança

        A surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions.

              lança

              A narrow window having a lancet arch and without tracery.

                    Usage of lancet in English
                    1
                    He examined the point of his lancet and bared the slender arm.
                    The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
                    2
                    The lancet was the magician's wand of the dark ages of medicine.
                    Medical Essays, 1842-1882
                    3
                    The lancet windows of his workshop looked on all this quiet greenery.
                    Bimbi: Stories for Children
                    4
                    No danger, but perhaps it may be a case for the lancet.
                    Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 02
                    5
                    Now comes the old-school doctor, and thrusts in his lancet too soon.
                    Bits about Home Matters
                    6
                    The males even, possessing no lancet, know no other manner of refreshment.
                    More Hunting Wasps
                    7
                    He next drew out a lancet, with its edge like a razor's.
                    The Jungle Fugitives: A Tale of Life and Adventure in India / In...
                    8
                    The doctor, with his lancet, pricked Chamberlan's ear, which trembled a little.
                    Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, par...
                    9
                    She's as sharp as a lancet, and it's difficult to deceive her.'
                    The Weapons of Mystery
                    10
                    I think at this point the lancet will not perform its necessary function.
                    Speaks the Nightbird
                    11
                    The third is the glass Virgin at the top of the central lancet.
                    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
                    12
                    He shook himself free-he saw the point of the lancet touch the vein.
                    Jezebel's Daughter
                    13
                    Frames of the lancet windows of the drum have been installed.
                    Messages to the Bahá'í World: 1950–1957
                    14
                    Above these is the triplet lancet of the great west window.
                    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury / A Descrip...
                    15
                    With the lancet Ali forced a claw away from the body.
                    Plague Ship
                    16
                    The columns between the lancet windows are rising higher with each passing day.
                    The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1)
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                    Translations for lancet
                    Portuguese
                    lança
                    Lancet through the time
                    Lancet across language varieties
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