Lancet

Definitions: Lancet

Lancet

Noun

1. An acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lancet" was first used: 1392. (references)

Etymology: Lancet \Lan"cet\, noun. [French expression lancette, diminutive of lance lance. See Lance.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Lancet

Perforator

Noun: perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel, gimlet, stylet, drill, wimble, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, corkscrew, dibble, trocar, trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder, lancet; punch, puncheon; spikebit, gouge; spear; (weapon); puncher; punching machine, punching press; punch pliers.

Sharpness

Wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, coulter, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter; sword; (arms); bodkin; (perforator); belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker; drawing knife, drawing shave; microtome; chisel, screwdriver blade; flint blade; guillotine.

Crosswords: Lancet

Books

• In England Now: 50 Years of Peripatetic Correspondence in the Lancet (reference)

• LANCET 1986-93 CD-ROM Institution (reference)

• LANCET 1993-95 CD-ROM Individual (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Lancet Infectious Diseases (reference)

• Lancet - North American Ed (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

[Bloodletting: Physician using lancet on soldier].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Lancet device�a spring-loaded finger sticking device. (references)

A hormonal role in carcinogenesis was first reported by G. T. Beatson in an 1898 Lancet article, which described a reduction of breast cancer in women whose ovaries had been surgically removed, resulting in greatly lowered estrogen levels. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "lancet": lancet arch ♦ Lancet architecture ♦ lancet fish ♦ lancet window. Additional references.

Beginning with "lancet": lancet-arched.

Albanian

rreshter (sergeant, staff sergeant), bisturi (lance, scalpel). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشرط (fleam, lance, scalpel), ‏مبضع (bistoury, scalpel). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стреловиден прозорец (lancet window), ланцет (fleam, lance). (various references)

Chinese 

柳叶刀. (various references)

Czech

lanceta (fleam). (various references)

Danish

lancet (blood lancette), blodlancet (blood lancette). (various references)

Dutch

lancet (blood lancette, scalpel, surgical knife). (various references)

French

lancette (blood lancette, lance). (various references)

German

lanzette (blood lancette, fleam). (various references)

Greek 

νυστέρι (blood lancette, scalpel). (various references)

Hebrew 

לאזמל, אזמל (blade, chisel, lance), כוסלת (lance). (various references)

Hungarian

sebészkés (lance, scalpel), gerely (javelin, lance). (various references)

Italian

lancetta (blood lancette, cursor, finger, fleam, hand, index, locator, needle, pointer, stift). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

刃針 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はばり. (various references)

Korean 

�"소. (various references)

Manx

skynn 'oalley, cuishloge (fleam, phleme). (various references)

Pig Latin

ancetlay.(various references)

Portuguese

lanceta (blood lancette, fleck, lance). (various references)

Romanian

lanţetã (fleam, lancet arch), lãnţişor (chain), cuţit (bistoury, chisel, knife, penknife). (various references)

Russian 

ланцет (fleam, lance). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lanceta. (various references)

Spanish

lanceta (blood lancette). (various references)

Swedish

lansett (fleam, lance). (various references)

Thai

มี�"ปลายแหลมขนา�"เล็กมีสองคม (ใช้สำหรับผ่าตั�"). (various references)

Turkish

neşter (lance), bisturi. (various references)

Ukranian 

ланцет (fleam, lance). (various references)

scalpello. (various references)

lancette. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lancet": lanceted, lancets. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lancet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ancit, Banctec, Fancott, lacet, lanet, Lannet, Lawnet, lence, lonet, Lurcott, pancetta, plancet. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cantle, cental.

-1 letter: clean, cleat, eclat, enact, lance, laten, leant.

-2 letters: acne, alec, ante, cane, cant, cate, celt, cent, clan, elan, etna, lace, lane, late, lean, lent, neat, tace, tael, talc, tale, teal, tela.

-3 letters: ace, act, ale, alt, ane, ant, ate, can, cat, cel, eat, eta, lac, lat, lea, let, nae, net, tae, tan, tea, tel, ten.

-4 letters: ae, al, an, at, el, en, et, la, na, ne, ta.

+1 letter: cantles, centals, central, lactean, lactone, lancets, latency.

+2 letters: analcite, analecta, analects, canticle, canulate, centrals, clarinet, cleanest, cleating, cliental, conepatl, conflate, covalent, ecotonal, ethnical, falconet, lactones, lacunate, laitance, lancelet, lanceted, nucleate, octangle, pentacle, placenta, planchet, secantly, tenacula, tentacle.

+3 letters: accentual, acetylene, acidulent, analcites, analeptic, analgetic, ancestral, anciently, anecdotal, anelastic, anticline, antiulcer, branchlet, cadential, calenture, candlelit, candlenut, cantabile, canticles, cantilena, canulated, canulates, castellan, cattleman, cattlemen, celebrant, centraler, centrally, certainly, chatelain, chelating, chelation, cingulate, cisternal, clarinets, clientage, coastline, cobaltine, coeternal, cognately, conepatls, conflated, conflates, connately, constable, consulate, countable, crenulate, culminate, decathlon, declarant, enucleate, exultance, exultancy, falconets, genetical, genitalic, gluconate, identical, inculcate, inculpate, inelastic, inexactly, inoculate, interclan, interlace, laciniate, laitances, lancelets, larcenist, latencies, lunchmeat, melanitic, melanotic, militance, nucleated, nucleates, nucleator, octangles, peccantly, pentacles, petulance, petulancy, placement, placentae, placental, placentas, planchets, rectangle, reluctant, sciential, sectional, selectman, technical, tenaculum, tentacled, tentacles, thylacine, tolerance, unactable, unethical, unlatched, unlatches.

+4 letters: accelerant, accentless, accidental, accidently, acetanilid, acetylenes, acetylenic, actinolite, actionable, actionless, adjacently, adolescent, alpenstock, analeptics, analgetics, antechapel, anthelices, anticlines, antipolice, binucleate, blatancies, branchlets, cajolement, calentures, calumniate, candlenuts, cantaloupe, cantilenas, cantilever, cantillate, carnallite, castellans, catamenial, celebrants, centennial, centesimal, centralest, centralise, centralism, centralist, centrality, centralize, chatelaine, chatelains, chelations, chlorinate, citronella, clattering, cleanliest, clientages, coalescent, coastlines, cobaltines, coelacanth, coelentera, colemanite, complacent, conceptual, conciliate, congenital, conglobate, constables, consulates, contextual, conventual, corelating, covalently, covenantal, credential, crenelated, crenulated, culminated, culminates, decadently, decathlons, declarants, documental, enlacement, enucleated, enucleates, epicentral, escalating, escalation, ethnically, exactingly, exultances, flatulence, flatulency, geniculate, glauconite, gluconates, hatcheling, inactively, inchoately, incidental, inculcated, inculcates, inculpated, inculpates, indelicate, indictable, injectable, inoculated, inoculates, inosculate, interclass, interlaced, interlaces, interlocal, lacerating, laceration, lactogenic, lacustrine, lanceolate, larcenists, lectionary, lemniscate, lenticular, licentiate, linecaster, lunchmeats, malcontent, maleficent, melanistic, melanocyte, mercantile, militances, neoplastic, noncentral, nonelastic, nonethical, noticeable, noticeably, novaculite, nucleating, nucleation, nucleators, occidental, opalescent, outbalance, paniculate, peculating, peculation, petulances, placements, placentals, planchette, plasticene, plasticine, pleonastic, pratincole, rectangles, relocating, relocation, reluctance, reluctancy, retackling, retinacula, sectionals, semantical, solacement, subcentral, tabernacle, technicals, tenaculums, tentacular, thylacines, tolerances, trancelike, ulcerating, ulceration, ultraclean, unathletic, unchastely, unciliated, uncleanest, unclearest.

+5 letters: acaulescent, accelerants, accentually, acceptingly, accidentals, accountable, acetanilide, acetanilids, acetylating, acetylation, actinolites, adolescents, affectingly, affectional, alpenstocks, altercating, altercation, amylopectin, analemmatic, ancestrally, anecdotally, anecdotical, antechapels, anticruelty, anticyclone, antinuclear, antinucleon, ascendantly, binucleated, bisectional, cajolements, calisthenic, calumniated, calumniates, campanulate, cancelation, candlelight, candlestick, cantaloupes, cantilevers, cantillated, cantillates, captionless, cardinalate, carnalities, carnallites, cartelising, cartelizing, cartoonlike, celebrating, celebration, centennials, centralised, centralises, centralisms, centralists, centralized, centralizer, centralizes, centrically, centrifugal, centripetal, cephalothin, chanterelle, chanticleer, chatelaines, chlorinated, chlorinates, circinately, citronellal, citronellas, clandestine, clarinetist, coelacanths, colemanites, coleopteran, colinearity, collectanea, concealment, conceptacle, conciliated, conciliates, condimental, confabulate, congealment, congelation, conglobated, conglobates, conjectural, conjugately, connectable, consolidate, constellate, construable, containable, contemplate, contestable, continental, contractile, conventuals, correlating, correlation, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, countervail, credentials, crenelation, crenellated, crenulation, crestfallen, crystalline, cupellation, curtailment, curtainless, cutaneously, deceptional, declamation, declaration, declination, decollating, decollation, decremental, defalcating, defalcation, delectation, denticulate, dilatancies, directional, educational, ejaculating, ejaculation, electrician, elicitation, elucidating, elucidation, emplacement, encapsulate, enigmatical, enlacements, enucleating, enucleation, equinoctial, escalations, ethicalness, exceptional, exclamation, excremental, exculpating, exculpation, expectantly, explicating, explication, exultancies, facelifting, factualness, flatulences, geanticline, genetically, geniculated, genotypical, gesticulant, glabrescent, glauconites, glycerinate, granulocyte, hallucinate, hatchelling, hypocentral, identically, incalescent, incessantly, incidentals, incremental, ineffectual, ineluctable, ineluctably, inflectable, injectables, inoculative, inosculated, inosculates, inscrutable, intercalary, intercalate, intercensal, intercostal, interfacial, interlacing, interracial, intervallic, intolerance, intractable, intrathecal, intricately, involucrate, kinematical, kinetically, lacerations, leatherneck, lecithinase, lemniscates, licentiates, lieutenancy, linecasters, linecasting, lycanthrope, malcontents, maledicting, malediction, malefaction, mantelpiece, melanocytes, mentalistic, metonymical, militancies, multiagency, narcoleptic, nematicidal, nematocidal, neocortical, nomenclator, nonathletic, nonmetallic, nonmetrical, novaculites, nucleations, outbalanced, outbalances, pearlescent, peculations, pedunculate, penicillate, percolating, percolation, petulancies, planchettes, planimetric, plasticenes, plasticines, plecopteran, praelecting, pratincoles, radiolucent, reclamation, rectangular, rectilinear, redactional, reductional, reflectance, reinoculate, relocations, reluctances, reluctantly, reluctating, reluctation, replacement, replicating, replication, retinaculum, sacramental, sansculotte, scintillate, sectionally, solacements, speculating, speculation, stickhandle, subjacently, tabernacled, tabernacles, tactfulness, technically, telecasting, tenaciously, tetanically, thunderclap, tonetically, translocate, translucent, trenchantly, typicalness, ulcerations, unallocated, uncataloged, uncatchable, uncertainly, unclarities, uncountable, unelectable, unexcitable, uninucleate, unmatchable, unrealistic, unreluctant, unteachable, untechnical, untouchable, untraceable, unwatchable, valediction, ventricular, vulcanisate, vulcanizate.

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