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

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

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

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