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Definition of "scalpel" [scal•pel]

  • A small straight knife with a thin sharp blade used in surgery and dissection. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "scalpel" in a sentence
  • "And we do what we call scalpel ph pricing per community literally every week, where we track our sales are and do we need to push price or pull back on price."
  • "For example, Samuel Eliot Morrison cites the case of the wounded Japanese prisoner who grabbed the scalpel from the hand of the American surgeon trying to save his life and murdered him."
  • "The Berkeley Earth team uses a statistical tool it calls a scalpel to cut out data when there is a gap."