lancet

A surgical knife with a short, wide, pointed double-edged blade, used especially for making punctures and small incisions.

A lancet arch.

A lancet window.

In entomology, one of the lower pair of piercing organs in the dipterous mouth; the scalpella: supposed by Kirby and Spence to represent the maxillæ of the haustellate mouth.

A small lance or javelin.

A small surgical instrument, sharp-pointed and generally two-edged, used in bloodletting and in opening tumors, abscesses, etc.

In arch., a lancet-window; an arch of lancet shape.

A surgical knife-like instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.

An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.