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lancet

[lan-sit, lahn-] / ˈlæn sɪt, ˈlɑn- /




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With one lancet left, I enlisted the services of my photographer-turned-nurse.

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

His lancet windows feature entire segments, such as the protesters’ placards, crafted in different shades of white, allowing sunshine to come pouring through.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2023

At the morgue he not only helped locate a distinctive wart on the dead man’s neck, he pulled out his own lancet and removed the wart himself, then matter-of-factly handed it to the coroner.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

I do not trouble myself to know whether the lancets at the service of the wounded are royalist or republican.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary




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