: a small straight thin-bladed knife used especially in surgery
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Authorities at the prison discovered a box containing suboxone, marijuana, a scalpel, a phone charger, cigarettes, and lighters left outside of the facility and attached to a bedsheet hanging out of recreation room window.
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Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Correction officers recovered the rope and found contraband wrapped in duct tape all along its length — including a large quantity of Suboxone and nearly 30 small bags of pot, plus a scalpel, cell phone charger, two lighters, and more than 400 cigarettes.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2025
Because Noah is much more experienced, both as an actor and certainly with the medical procedures, and others are just desperately trying to not drop the scalpel on anybody, some with greater success than others.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2025
Why sweat the scalpel when Trump wields the sledgehammer?
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
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Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Correction officers recovered the rope and found contraband wrapped in duct tape all along its length — including a large quantity of Suboxone and nearly 30 small bags of pot, plus a scalpel, cell phone charger, two lighters, and more than 400 cigarettes.
—John Annese, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2025
Because Noah is much more experienced, both as an actor and certainly with the medical procedures, and others are just desperately trying to not drop the scalpel on anybody, some with greater success than others.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2025
Why sweat the scalpel when Trump wields the sledgehammer?
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for scalpel
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“Scalpel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scalpel. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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scalpel
noun
scal·pel
ˈskal-pəl 
also skal-ˈpel
: a small straight thin-bladed knife used especially in surgery
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