scalpel

English

A scalpel

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scalpellum, from scalprum (“knife”), from scalpere (“to cut”). Doublet of scalpellum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskælpəl/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

scalpel (plural scalpels)

1. A small straight knife with a very sharp blade used for surgery, dissection and craftwork.
   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 399:

     He feels a tingling behind his ears, anticipating the scalpel and the drill.

Derived terms

• microscalpel
• scalpeliform
• scalpelliform

Translations

small straight knife — see also bistoury,‎ lancet

• Arabic: مِشْرَط m (mišraṭ)
• Armenian: հերձադանակ (hy) (herjadanak)
• Azerbaijani: neştər (az)
• Basque: bisturi
• Belarusian: скальпель (skalʹpjelʹ)
• Bulgarian: скалпел (bg) m (skalpel)
• Catalan: bisturí m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解剖刀 (zh) (jiěpōudāo), 手術刀 / 手术刀 (zh) (shǒushùdāo)

• Czech: skalpel (cs) m
• Danish: operationskniv, skalpel (da)
• Dutch: scalpel (nl) n, scalpeermes n
• Esperanto: skalpelo
• Finnish: skalpelli (fi), leikkausveitsi (fi)
• French: scalpel (fr) m
• Georgian: სკალპელი (sḳalṗeli)
• German: Skalpell (de) n
• Greek: νυστέρι (el) n (nystéri), μαχαιρίδιο n (machairídio)
• Greenlandic: pilaanermut savik
• Hebrew: אזמל (he) m (izmel)
• Hungarian: szike (hu)
• Icelandic: skurðarhnífur m
• Ido: skalpelo (io)
• Irish: sceanóg f
• Italian: bisturi (it), scalpello (it)
• Japanese: メス (ja) (mesu), 円刃刀 (えんじんとう, enjintō)
• Kapampangan: bisturí
• Kazakh: скальпель (skalpel)
• Korean: 메스 (meseu)
• Latin: scalpellum m
• Lithuanian: skalpelis m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skalpell m

  Nynorsk: skalpell m

• Old English: lǣċeseax n
• Persian: اسکالپل (eskâlpel)
• Plautdietsch: Doktamassa n
• Polish: skalpel (pl) m
• Portuguese: bisturi (pt), escalpelo (pt) m
• Romanian: bisturiu (ro) n
• Russian: ска́льпель (ru) m (skálʹpelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: skalpel (sh) m
• Slovak: skalpel m
• Spanish: escalpelo (es) m
• Swedish: skalpell (sv)
• Tagalog: bisturi, pangadlit
• Tajik: сӯзанак (süzanak)
• Telugu: స్కాల్పెల్ (skālpel)
• Thai: มีดผ่าตัด (mîit-pàa-dtàt)
• Turkish: neşter (tr)
• Ukrainian: скальпель m (skalʹpelʹ)
• Vietnamese: dao mổ (vi)
• Welsh: fflaim f
• Yiddish: סקאַלפּעל m (skalpel)

See also

• bistoury
• knife

Verb

scalpel

1. To hit, thrust, or pierce with a scalpel.

Anagrams

• Capells, cell sap

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin scalpellum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skal.pɛl/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

scalpel m (plural scalpels)

1. scalpel

Further reading

• “scalpel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French scalpel.

Noun

scalpel n (plural scalpele)

1. scalpel

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	scalpel	scalpelul	scalpele	scalpelele
genitive-dative	scalpel	scalpelului	scalpele	scalpelelor
vocative	scalpelule		scalpelelor