lancet
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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
That's the reality for ants infected with the lancet liver fluke, a tiny parasitic flatworm.
From Science Daily • Sep. 17, 2023
Volunteers used a lancet to prick their fingertip and squeeze out droplets of blood that they deposited into sampling devices.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2021
The investigator, played by Shea Whigham, is a cubicle-bred bureaucrat questing after nobility; he picks up a yellow highlighter as if it were a knightly lancet.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2018
He did not carry a lancet or bowl.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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