Definitions for lancets

lancets lan·cet

Spelling: [lan-sit, lahn-]
IPA: /ˈlæn sɪt, ˈlɑn-/

Lancets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 292 anagrams from letters in lancets (acelnst).

Definitions for lancets

noun

  1. a small surgical instrument, usually sharp-pointed and two-edged, for making small incisions, opening abscesses, etc.
  2. Architecture. a lancet arch. a lancet window.

Origin of lancets

1375-1425; late Middle English lancette Middle French. See lance1, -et

Examples for lancets

But sickness and the lancet make one very tolerant of sermonizing.

The lancet issued a formal retraction of the study soon after.

lancet windows: high, narrow windows of the earliest Gothic architecture.

He took a lancet from his pocket and opened a vein in the arm.

The lancet simile was not original, but one that he had heard somewhere.

This same view was given in his Fifty-fifth Lecture, published in the "lancet" in 1834.

According to studies published this week in The lancet, aspirin radically reduces the risk of cancer.

The lancet should never have published it (many of the co-authors later withdrew their names from the paper).

The finding, published online in the journal The lancet, lit up headlines this week.

And even The lancet and Nature publish their share of shaky studies.

Word Value for lancets
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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