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guillotine /guil·lo·tine/ (ge´o-tēn) [Fr.] an instrument with a sliding blade for excising a tonsil or the uvula.

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A ring-shaped instrument with a sliding knifeblade running through it, used in cutting off an enlarged tonsil.

Guillotine

An instrument of execution invented by Joseph Ignace Guillotin, professor of anatomy of the faculty of medicine of Paris, as a more humane way to end life than the often too slow death by asphyxia of hangings and all-too-common misses of beheadings by axe—which left victims bleeding and battered, but alive.

guillotine [ge´o-tēn]

a surgical instrument with a sliding blade for excising a tonsil or the uvula.

guillotine

a surgical instrument with a sliding blade for excising a tonsil or a toenail.

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