scalpel
Example Sentences
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I watch as a lab technician separates young shoots with a sterile scalpel and forceps.
From BBC
Akutagawa, recalled Kurosawa in his memoir, “goes into the depths of the human heart as if with a surgeon’s scalpel, laying bare its dark complexities and bizarre twists.”
But few legislators could handle a lawmaking scalpel like Burton.
From Los Angeles Times
A surgeon's scalpel to both knee and hamstring.
From BBC
Chapman had applied gauze to Williams' mouth, not a scalpel.
From BBC
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