Definitions for lancet

lancet lan·cet

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

Lancet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in lancet (acelnt).

Definitions for lancet

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 lancet

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

Examples for lancet

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for lancet
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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