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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

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

The lancets used to prick fingers pose another problem.

From Science Magazine Mar. 7, 2018

The nave is Perpendicular, but the large windows in the south aisle are really Early English lancets, the Perpendicular tracery being inserted—a most unusual development.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare




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