: a small straight thin-bladed knife used especially in surgery
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Existing technologies to isolate cells often do so by sawing small pieces off of a larger tissue chunk with a scalpel or razor, potentially damaging the cells so they can no longer be studied properly.
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Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2025
The city doesn’t need a hammer, but a scalpel.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
But can anything—short of a good old-fashioned scalpel to the kisser—actually give you those kinds of results?
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2025
The work of Thierry Mugler, who founded the label in 1974, oscillated between old Hollywood, high camp, and outer space—and sometimes encompassed all three—but was always delivered by a fierce talent aided and abetted by a scalpel-sharp sense of form and fit.
—Mark Holgate, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
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Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2025
The city doesn’t need a hammer, but a scalpel.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
But can anything—short of a good old-fashioned scalpel to the kisser—actually give you those kinds of results?
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2025
The work of Thierry Mugler, who founded the label in 1974, oscillated between old Hollywood, high camp, and outer space—and sometimes encompassed all three—but was always delivered by a fierce talent aided and abetted by a scalpel-sharp sense of form and fit.
—Mark Holgate, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Scalpel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scalpel. Accessed 7 Nov. 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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