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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 152 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LANCET (from Fr. lancette, dim. of
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lance, lance)  , the name given to a surgical
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instrument, with a narrow two-edged blade and a
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lance-shaped point, used for opening abscesses, &c . The
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term is applied, in
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architecture, to a
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form of the pointed
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arch, and to a window of which the
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head is a
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lancet-arch .

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