Crossword-Solution: BISTOURY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bistoury | n. | A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “BISTOURY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A long narrow scalpel for making delicate incisions in surgery | 1 answer |
| BISTORIE | 1 answer |
| BISTOURI | 1 answer |
| Surgical instrument used for making small incisions | 1 answer |
| Scalpel | 4 answers |
| Surgical knife | 9 answers |
| Dagger | 32 answers |
| Knife | 42 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with BISTOURY (5)
Douglas Stone drew a bistoury from his case, opened it and felt the keen straight edge with his forefinger.
Often the obstruction is so dense as to require a large bistoury to divide it, and even that is not always sufficient, and the Cesarean operation only can terminate the obstructed delivery; we cannot surmise how conception could have been possible.
The opening was so small that he had to enlarge it with a bistoury to replace the bowel, which was dark and congested; he sutured the wound with silver wire, but the child subsequently died.
They first ligated the cord, which fell off in nine days, and then separated the twins with the bistoury.
Buffon and Brown mention infibulation in Abyssinia, the parts being separated by a bistoury at the time of marriage.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1994).