: a small straight thin-bladed knife used especially in surgery
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebAuthorities say Simmons-Hancock was stabbed and cut more than 100 times and had her skull crushed with a hammer in her New Boston, Texas, home before a scalpel was used to remove her unborn baby.Chron, 14 Sep. 2022 Authorities say Simmons-Hancock was stabbed and cut more than 100 times and had her skull crushed with a hammer in her New Boston, Texas, home before a scalpel was used to remove her unborn baby.CBS News, 14 Sep. 2022 Authorities say Simmons-Hancock was stabbed and cut more than 100 times and had her skull crushed with a hammer in her New Boston, Texas, home before a scalpel was used to remove her unborn baby.Fox News, 14 Sep. 2022 Authorities revealed in court Simmons Hancock was stabbed and cut more than 100 times and had her skull crushed with a hammer before a scalpel was used to remove her unborn baby. Chris Harris, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2022 Oncologists have increasingly seen mammograms as a double-edged scalpel. Angus Chen, STAT, 30 June 2022 And on a recent morning, Thai Jones, a curator at Columbia University’s special collections library, picked up a scalpel-like letter opener, reached into a box of jumbled mail and took a deep breath.New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022 But if powerful, heavy cars are sledgehammers, the Seven is a scalpel. Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 1 June 2022 Those wounds can’t be surgically fixed with a scalpel. Samer Attar, WSJ, 8 May 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Latin scalpellus, scalpellum, diminutive of scalper, scalprum chisel, knife, from scalpere to scratch, carve