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Gynaecology A person who performs illegal abortions
Molecular biology An enzyme that cuts double-stranded DNA in specific places
Psychiatry A person, more often female, who causes self injury in the form of razor cuts, slashes with hot knives, and other mentally cathartic acts; there are said to be up to 2 million cutters in the US, who may be recognised by cross-hatched scars in various place on their bodies, depression, distrust of others
Risks Scars, suicide, blood loss, infection—e.g., HIV—death
Surgery Slang for a surgeon

cutter

Self-mutilator Psychiatry A person, more often ♀, who causes self injury in the form of razor cuts, slashes with hot knives, and other mentally cathartic acts; there are said to be up to 2 million cutters in the US Clinical Cross-hatched scars, depression, distrust of others Risks Scars, suicide, blood loss, infection–eg, HIV, death. See Self mutilation.

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You also need to measure your cutters for the same reasons, especially if you've reground them.

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6] developed a new cutter wear model from the cutting experiments.

Failure analysis and optimum structure design of PDC cutter

The project focused on the effect of cutter design features on the wear rate, namely the cutter size and cutter shape.

EFFECT OF SIZE AND GEOMETRY OF POLYCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND CUTTER (PCD) ON WEAR RATE IN MULTILAYER FORMATION

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American Capital and an affiliate invested in the One Stop Buyout of Pacific Handy Cutter in December 2006.

American Capital Sells California Cutting Tool Maker Pacific Handy Cutter to Levine Leichtman

Generally I find that Gunline cutters are a bit more aggressive, but that's about it.

Checkering tool life

In order to deepen the grooves in the bore with successive passes of the rifling cutter box, paper shims were placed under the cutters when enough material had been scraped away from the groove bottoms to cause the cutter to become loose.

The basics of cut rifling a rifle barrel: using modern machines and tools to create those important grooves

In this report, Technavio covers the present scenario and growth prospects of the global brush cutter market 2015-2019.

New market study, "Global Brush Cutter Market 2015-2019", has been published

The Viper RockReamer cutter is secured in place with an internal, protected boss on the top and bottom of the cutter.

Horizontal Technology Inc

Unlike conventional knife cutters that slice material into strips and require frequent sharpening, the SCC-15-B cutter positions carbide tipped cutter heads along the entire shaft, with no frontal gaps between the tips.

Munson Machinery

R, appointed Cutter to the commissioner post in June 2009.

#2 Indiana Commissioner dies

She leaves five children, Candy (Carolyn) Cares of Northboro, Jeffrey Cutter of Carver, Bradley Cutter of Elkton, Md.