LANCET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lancet mean? 

• LANCET (noun)
  The noun LANCET has 2 senses:

1. an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance

2. a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions

  Familiarity information: LANCET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LANCET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

lancet; lancet arch

Hypernyms ("lancet" is a kind of...):

Gothic arch (a pointed arch; usually has a joint (instead of a keystone) at the apex)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

lance; lancet

Hypernyms ("lancet" is a kind of...):

surgical knife (a very sharp knife used in surgery)

 Context examples 

“Well, then,” said he, “you hold the basin”; and with that he took his lancet and opened a vein.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A procedure in which a finger is pricked with a lancet to obtain a small quantity of capillary blood for testing.

(Finger Stick, NCI Thesaurus)

Well then, returned my aunt, softened by the reply, how can you pretend to be wool-gathering, Dick, when you are as sharp as a surgeon's lancet?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had evidently been schooling himself as to all sorts of little things, and remembered them; but he almost managed to sit down on his silk hat, which men don't generally do when they are cool, and then when he wanted to appear at ease he kept playing with a lancet in a way that made me nearly scream.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)