scalpel (redirected from surgical knife)

scalpel /scal·pel/ (skal´p'l) a small surgical knife usually having a convex edge.

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scal·pel (sklpl)

n.

A small straight knife with a thin sharp blade used in surgery and dissection.

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scalpel

[skal′pəl]

Etymology: L, scalprum, knife

a small pointed knife with a convex edge. Some scalpels use interchangeable blades for specific surgical procedures, such as operating and amputating. Multiple kinds of scalpels are used; they are identified by number. Number 10 is the most common.

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scalpel (skal´pl),

n a delicate, razor-sharp, pointed knife, usually with a convex edge.

scalpel, electrosurgical,

n a scalpel that severs tissue by means of an electrically heated wire.

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scalpel

small surgical knife. The traditional fixed blade model usually has a convex edge. Modern instruments have detachable blades in a great variety of shapes. There are other more sophisticated cutting instruments such as the argon plasma scalpel, the carbon dioxide laser scalpel, the electrosurgical scalpel and the high-energy scalpel.

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scalpel

Surgery A surgical cutting knife, usually understood to have a curved and disposible blade. See Rotary gamma scalpel.