Associations to the word «Scalpel»

Wiktionary

SCALPEL, noun. A small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork.

Dictionary definition

SCALPEL, noun. A thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne