: a small straight thin-bladed knife used especially in surgery
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While Nvidia's GPUs are versatile general-purpose processors, TPUs act like specialized scalpels optimized for AI workloads.—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025 If Woking’s standard F1 GTR was a knife, the 1997 Longtail transformed it into a scalpel.—Sean Evans, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025 Once again, del Toro shows an unflinching attitude to violence, thrusting our faces in with the scalpels and bone saws (the sound may actually be more traumatizing).—Peter Debruge, Variety, 30 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 See All Example Sentences for scalpel
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Latin scalpellus, scalpellum, diminutive of scalper, scalprum chisel, knife, from scalpere to scratch, carve
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