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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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