The nurse used a lancet to extract just a drop of blood from the patient's finger. From LearnThat.org.
The lancet was the magician's wand of the dark ages of medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
"The lancet is a weapon which annually slays more than the sword," says. From Wordnik.com. [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference
The lancet is the preferable instrument in the performance of this operation. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
It is the pocket-knife, not the lancet, that is oftener called into requisition. From Wordnik.com. [Hints for Lovers] Reference
He started, and let the lancet fall out of his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
When ripe they should be destroyed by a needle or lancet. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Those lancet-arched windows are the admiration of all who pass by. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Except one small lancet adjoining this buttress, the windows of the. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
The lancet on the eastern side of the "Philpot" window is dedicated to Grace. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
The eastern wall is of three bays, each bay having three lofty lancet windows. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
Not long after, the king's surgeon was bribed to kill him with a poisoned lancet. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The clerestory is lighted by plain lancet windows, enclosed in an elegant arcading. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
Labrum-epipharynx: in the mouth of piercing Diptera is the central unpaired lancet. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
The artist has succeeded in compressing a rather large subject into the single lancet. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
Here is a celebrated Roman arched gate; but the lancet form would indicate a later date. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Below each of its nine lancet windows was originally an altar, dedicated to different saints. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
His viscera are bruised, and his only chance of life is in cool veins well emptied by the lancet. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father] Reference
Gower's monument in the interior necessitates a shorter window, which is here made a double lancet. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
A senior space officer with the golden lancet of the medical service on his blue tunic bent over him. From Wordnik.com. [Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet] Reference
The = North Side = of the nave corresponds with the south, each bay containing a lancet window in the clerestory. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
One day, when the king needed bleeding, and the fatal lancet was ready, the surgeon read on the bowl which was close by. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
On my right the stonechats bounce and bob on the breeze from outcrop to lancet outcrop of slate, chittering as they fly. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary] Reference
Arrived at the head of the steps we gained an embattled balcony, giving access, by means of a lancet arch, into the keep. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
These probably constituted the lower part of a rood screen, and consist of slender pillars, supporting lancet-headed arcading. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
And as for the trooper who attacked you -- I know not whether your lance or the doctor's lancet is responsible for his taking off. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
The eastern wall, with its rose and nine lancet windows, is the earliest part of the chapel, the north and south walls being later. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
Sir Arthur Blomfield has preferred small square panes of glass, as more in character with the lancet type of window, and the other Early. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
Each bay consists of a lancet-headed trefoil, supported by octagonal pillars, with moulded capitals and bases ... total height 2ft. 9in. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
So, too, if the point of a lancet be held for some length of time between the severed ends of a newly-divided large nerve, that point, as. From Wordnik.com. [A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication] Reference
The sting of the bee and the lancet of the gnat, although fashioned of very different materials, bear a close likeness in their mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
In another similar case, I removed the elevated hard edges of the ulcer by the lancet, and then tried the caustic, without better success. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers] Reference
The = South side of the Lady Chapel = contains a central window of three lights and geometrical tracery, with a lancet window on the right and left. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
The most interesting part is the five-sided apse, with in each side one long lancet window, and above it two small windows separated by an impost colonnette. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
He was twenty-four when, in 1835, he took his M.R.C.S. He had been a medical student of "Bart's," but had already abandoned, in great measure, the lancet for the pen. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
The bays below are lighted by a similar series of larger windows of simpler construction, the moulding of the sides being carried over the lancet points in unbroken continuity. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
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