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bistoury

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bistoury /bis·tou·ry/ (bis´tdbobr-re) a long, narrow, straight or curved surgical knife.
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Bistoury.

bis·tou·ry (bst-r)
n.
A long, narrow-bladed knife used for opening abscesses or for slitting sinuses and fistulas.

bistoury
a long, narrow, straight or curved surgical knife used in opening sinuses and fistulae, incising abscesses, etc.

Udall's teat bistoury
designed for opening stenosed teat sphincters. The point is blunt and rounded, the cutting edge is inset from the true edge of the blade and is about 0.5 in long. The bistoury is inserted into the canal and withdrawn sharply so as to incise the scar tissue vertically. Three or four incisions are made in this way.


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Sims convinced the reluctant patient to undergo surgery without anesthesia, and later recorded: "I think it was one of the happiest moments of my life when I saw the matter [pus] flow and come welling up opposite that bistoury [scalpel].
Other medical items on sale include a bistoury, a very thin curved blade designed to help remove strangulated hernias, a Georgian thumb lancet used for blood letting and a selection of bleeding cups used to collect blood, expected to fetch around pounds 200 each.
After decalcification, the pieces containing the sockets of the right upper jaw incisors were obtained through an incision with a bistoury at the level of the sagittal medium plan, going by the incisive papilla.
 
 
 
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