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"Thermometers, hypodermic syringes bistouries "
A surgical cutting instrument, with a rather long narrow blade, such as might be used to lance an abscess.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Definition: \Bis"tou*ry\, n.; pl. {Bistouries}. [F. bistouri.]
A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either
straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath
the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.
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Etymology or bistoury history, please.
Add this one to the gully knife list...or the list that began with gully.
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bistoury
SYLLABICATION: bis·tou·ry
PRONUNCIATION: bst-r
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. bis·tou·ries
A long, narrow surgical knife for minor incisions.
ETYMOLOGY: French bistouri, perhaps from Italian dialectal bistori, from bistorino, of Pistoia, from Latin Pistrium, Pistoia.
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And now we need either Faldage or Emanuela...
Thanks, wwh.
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