SCALPEL definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
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WEBnoun. a small, light, straight knife with a very sharp blade, used by surgeons and in anatomical dissections. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. Word origin. L scalpellum, dim. of scalprum, a knife < scalpere, to cut < IE base * (s)kel- > scale 2. Word Frequency.
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