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scal·pel

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NOUN:

A small straight knife with a thin sharp blade used in surgery and dissection.

ETYMOLOGY:
Latin scalpellum, diminutive of scalper, scalprum, knife, from scalpere, to scratch, cut; see skel- ¹ in Indo-European roots

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