Scalpels!!!
2006-11-18 12:07:29
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answered by TallBlackies21 2
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A scapel.
A scalpel is a very sharp knife used for surgery as well as various arts and crafts.
Scalpels can have a fixed blade, or a disposable blade. The blades on scalpels are extremely sharp—merely touching a medical scalpel with bare hands to test it will cut through the skin.
Graphical and model-making scalpels tend to have round handles, with a lot of grip. The blade is usually flat and straight, allowing it to be run easily against a straightedge to produce straight lines. The handles of medical and dissection scalpels are flatter, more like a bread knife. They do not have the same level of grip as art scalpels, as this would make cleaning and sterilization more difficult. The grip in medical scalpels is usually just a slight corrugation. Medical scalpel blades are gradually curved for greater precision when cutting through tissue.
There are different ways of gripping and using a medical scalpel:
Pencil grip
Fingertip grip
Palm grip
Ancient Egyptians made incisions for embalming with scalpels of sharpened obsidian, a glassy volcanic rock. Ayurveda mentions the use of sharp bamboo splinters.
2006-11-18 18:44:40
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answered by Ann 2
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A scalpel is a very sharp knife used for surgery as well as various arts and crafts.
Scalpels can have a fixed blade, or a disposable blade. The blades on scalpels are extremely sharp—merely touching a medical scalpel with bare hands to test it will cut through the skin.
2006-11-18 20:25:30
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answered by Martha P 7
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Scalpels
2006-11-18 18:40:14
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answered by penpallermel 6
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Hopefully..... STERILE!
Ok... they are called scalpels:
scal‧pel /ËskælpÉl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[skal-puhl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
a small, light, usually straight knife used in surgical and anatomical operations and dissections.
[Origin: 1735–45; < L scalpellum, dim. of scalprum tool for scraping or paring (deriv. of scalpere to scratch); for formation see castellum]
—Related forms
scal‧pel‧lic /skælËpÉlɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[skal-pel-ik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation, adjective
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
Best Wishes,
Sue
2006-11-18 19:32:20
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answered by newbiegranny 5
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scalpel
2006-11-18 18:44:44
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answered by eskew_obfuscation 3
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scalpels
2006-11-18 18:43:54
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answered by Silly me 4
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it's called scapels.
You must be in jr. high schoool.
I'M AROUND THERE.
2006-11-18 18:44:35
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answered by money4lyfe 1
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scapels
2006-11-18 18:44:08
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answered by ME 2
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