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Bistoury   Listen
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Bistoury  n.  (pl. bistouries)  A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.






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"Bistoury" Quotes from Famous Books



... follows: A portion of diseased lung is chosen, and a bistoury or needle made to pierce it so as to become charged with the material consolidating the lung, and this is afterward plunged into any part, but, more particularly, toward the point of the tail. If operated severely, and higher up, great exudation occurs, which spreads ...
— Cattle and Their Diseases • Robert Jennings



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