: a small straight thin-bladed knife used especially in surgery
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From afar, the 915-foot tower’s distinctive sloped roof cut through the Midtown skyline like a scalpel.
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Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Just as eerie is its sound design, which evocatively captures, for instance, the squish of a scalpel slicing through alien flesh.
—Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
The derm version involves a surgical scalpel, applied with steady pressure to remove layers of dead skin cells and peach fuzz for the ultimate exfoliation treatment.
—Sarah Y. Wu, Glamour, 23 July 2025
Incisional biopsy: This technique uses a scalpel to remove part of an abnormal-looking lesion.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 2 July 2025
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Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2025
Just as eerie is its sound design, which evocatively captures, for instance, the squish of a scalpel slicing through alien flesh.
—Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
The derm version involves a surgical scalpel, applied with steady pressure to remove layers of dead skin cells and peach fuzz for the ultimate exfoliation treatment.
—Sarah Y. Wu, Glamour, 23 July 2025
Incisional biopsy: This technique uses a scalpel to remove part of an abnormal-looking lesion.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 2 July 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 9 Sep. 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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