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lancet

[lan-sit, lahn-] / ˈlæn sɪt, ˈlɑn- /




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After three unsuccessful jabs with a tiny lancet, I had yet to produce enough blood to fill a circle on a collection card.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

A disposable lancet must pierce the skin, before drops of blood can be sucked into a pipette, mixed with a chemical and placed in the test cassette.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025

That's the reality for ants infected with the lancet liver fluke, a tiny parasitic flatworm.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2023

Volunteers used a lancet to prick their fingertip and squeeze out droplets of blood that they deposited into sampling devices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2021

Dr. Kerr took a small lancet from his bag.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

In response to KHN questions, the FDA said it considers home collection kits, which can include swabs, lancets, transport tubes and chemicals to stabilize the samples, to be devices that require agency review.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

The installation will cover four window sections, or lancets, that are six feet tall and one-and-a-half-feet wide.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2021

In 1805, their lobbying led the Vaccine Pock Institute in London to quiz Jesty about his experiment and he was presented with a scroll and gold lancets.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2021

But her diabetes test strips and lancets cost $120 for a three-month supply.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2018

The next floor has on each side an arcade of three lancets, and the storey above a window of two lights beneath an arch of two mouldings, forming a splay of four banded pillars.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare


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