Lancet
noun
A small, wide, sharp-pointed knife used by doctors for cutting skin and tissue.
The surgeon used a lancet to make a small incision in the patient's skin.
Often appears as...
- use a lancet
- lancet incision
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Formal
Technical
noun
A pointed window with a sharp arch, usually found in gothic architecture.
The lancet windows of the old cathedral created a beautiful pattern of light inside.
Often appears as...
- lancet window
- lancet arch
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Formal
Technical
noun
A British medical journal.
The latest medical research was published in The Lancet.
Often appears as...
- the lancet journal
- published in the lancet
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Formal
Academic
noun
A small, wide, sharp-pointed knife used by doctors for cutting skin and tissue.
The surgeon used a lancet to make a small incision in the patient's skin.
Often appears as...
- use a lancet
- lancet incision
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
A pointed window with a sharp arch, usually found in gothic architecture.
The lancet windows of the old cathedral created a beautiful pattern of light inside.
Often appears as...
- lancet window
- lancet arch
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
A British medical journal.
The latest medical research was published in The Lancet.
Often appears as...
- the lancet journal
- published in the lancet
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Precision
Used for precise cuts in surgery, implying careful work.
Please hand me the lancet for this delicate procedure.
Pro Tip 2/3Surgical Tool
Relates to small surgical instruments, not to be confused with regular knives.
Ensure the lancet is sterilized before the operation begins.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Context
Mainly used in professional medical settings, not common in everyday conversation.
The medical student learned how to properly use a lancet.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Precision
Used for precise cuts in surgery, implying careful work.
Please hand me the lancet for this delicate procedure.
Pro Tip 2/3Surgical Tool
Relates to small surgical instruments, not to be confused with regular knives.
Ensure the lancet is sterilized before the operation begins.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Context
Mainly used in professional medical settings, not common in everyday conversation.
The medical student learned how to properly use a lancet.
Pro Tip 1/3Medical Precision
Used for precise cuts in surgery, implying careful work.
Please hand me the lancet for this delicate procedure.
Pro Tip 2/3Surgical Tool
Relates to small surgical instruments, not to be confused with regular knives.
Ensure the lancet is sterilized before the operation begins.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Context
Mainly used in professional medical settings, not common in everyday conversation.
The medical student learned how to properly use a lancet.
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George Whitesides: A lab...
Turns out to work actually quite well, particularly when your color printer has printed the color bars that indicate how things work. So my view of the health care worker of the future is not a doctor, but an 18-year-old, otherwise unemployed, who has two a backpack full of these tests and a lancet to occasionally take a blood sample,
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How fear of nuclear...
Let's take safety. You know, despite what people think, it's hard to figure out how to make nuclear power much safer. I mean, every medical journal that looks at it -- this is the most recent study from the British journal, "Lancet," one of the most respected journals in the world --
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Dan Dennett: Responding...
without foresight, without design. When I was here four years ago, I told the story about an ant climbing a blade of grass. And why the ant was doing it was because its brain had been infected with a lancet fluke that was needed to get into the belly of a sheep or a cow
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Lifesaving scientific...
and a tiny drop of blood is going to come out. If you don't like blood, you don't have to look at it. Here is a little lancet. These lancets are available everywhere, completely passive. And if I've had breakfast today That didn't hurt at all.
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How your emotions change...
published in the British journal "The Lancet" in 1990. Forty-eight patients with moderate or severe coronary disease were randomly assigned to usual care or an intensive lifestyle that included a low-fat vegetarian diet,
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Dangerous memes PIPE Dan...
It's a parasitic brain worm that has to get into the stomach of a sheep or a cow in order to continue its life cycle. Salmon swim upstream to get to their spawning grounds, and lancet flukes commandeer a passing ant,
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Al Gore: How to make...
for more than a couple of hours. Already, the climate refugees and migrants are four times more from the climate crisis than from all the wars and conflicts going on right now. And the respected “Lancet” commission
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The secret to living...
In the developed world, everywhere, women live an average of six to eight years longer than men do. Six to eight years longer. That's, like, a huge gap. In 2015, the "Lancet" published an article
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The Blood-Suckers' Ball...
with the energy at the ball wets Jen's appetite it's time for her to dine on blood Jen burns herbs to cleanse the hotel room she'll use medical lancets to draw Cheryl's blood it's been one month
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The Blood-Suckers Ball PIPE...
hotel room she'll use medical lancets to draw Cheryl's blood it's been one month since I fed so this for me is kind of a good pivotal moment to hold me over till
Video examples
George Whitesides: A lab...
Turns out to work actually quite well, particularly when your color printer has printed the color bars that indicate how things work. So my view of the health care worker of the future is not a doctor, but an 18-year-old, otherwise unemployed, who has two a backpack full of these tests and a lancet to occasionally take a blood sample,
Video examples
How fear of nuclear...
Let's take safety. You know, despite what people think, it's hard to figure out how to make nuclear power much safer. I mean, every medical journal that looks at it -- this is the most recent study from the British journal, "Lancet," one of the most respected journals in the world --
Video examples
Dan Dennett: Responding...
without foresight, without design. When I was here four years ago, I told the story about an ant climbing a blade of grass. And why the ant was doing it was because its brain had been infected with a lancet fluke that was needed to get into the belly of a sheep or a cow
Video examples
Lifesaving scientific...
and a tiny drop of blood is going to come out. If you don't like blood, you don't have to look at it. Here is a little lancet. These lancets are available everywhere, completely passive. And if I've had breakfast today That didn't hurt at all.
Video examples
How your emotions change...
published in the British journal "The Lancet" in 1990. Forty-eight patients with moderate or severe coronary disease were randomly assigned to usual care or an intensive lifestyle that included a low-fat vegetarian diet,
Video examples
Dangerous memes PIPE Dan...
It's a parasitic brain worm that has to get into the stomach of a sheep or a cow in order to continue its life cycle. Salmon swim upstream to get to their spawning grounds, and lancet flukes commandeer a passing ant,
Video examples
Al Gore: How to make...
for more than a couple of hours. Already, the climate refugees and migrants are four times more from the climate crisis than from all the wars and conflicts going on right now. And the respected “Lancet” commission
Video examples
The secret to living...
In the developed world, everywhere, women live an average of six to eight years longer than men do. Six to eight years longer. That's, like, a huge gap. In 2015, the "Lancet" published an article
Video examples
The Blood-Suckers' Ball...
with the energy at the ball wets Jen's appetite it's time for her to dine on blood Jen burns herbs to cleanse the hotel room she'll use medical lancets to draw Cheryl's blood it's been one month
Video examples
The Blood-Suckers Ball PIPE...
hotel room she'll use medical lancets to draw Cheryl's blood it's been one month since I fed so this for me is kind of a good pivotal moment to hold me over till
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