lancet

lancet

See also: Lancet

English

Alternative forms

• launcet (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English launcet, from Old French lancete, a diminutive of lance [1].

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lɑːn.sɪt/

• Audio (RP)

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• (US, Canada, Northern England) IPA^(key): /læn.sɪt/

Noun

lancet (plural lancets)

1. A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
2. A small, sterile single-use needle used to draw a drop of blood for testing, as with a glucometer.
3. (metallurgy) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace[2].
4. (architecture) A high narrow window, terminating in an arch acutely pointed, often double or triple, common in the first half of the 13th century.
   • 2014, Richard Powers, Orfeo, W. W. Norton & Company, page 234:

     He looked away, into the cavernous space emptying of people. Up in the galleries and behind the choir, the wide window lancets were sheets of black.

Hyponyms

• (sharp surgical instrument): fleam

Derived terms

• lancet arch
• (ichthyological): lancetfish

Translations

surgical instrument

Albanian: bisturi (sq) Arabic: مِفْصَد‎ m (mifṣad), فَاصِد‎ m (fāṣid) Armenian: նշտար (hy) (nštar) Bulgarian: ланцет m (lancet) Catalan: llanceta Czech: skalpel (cs) m Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: lancet (nl) Esperanto: lanceto Faroese: æðrajarn n Finnish: lansetti (fi) French: lancette (fr) f Galician: lanceta f German: Lanzette (de) f Greek: αμφίστομο νυστέρι n (amfístomo nystéri), νυστέρι (el) n (nystéri) Ido: lanceto (io) Indonesian: lanset (id) Italian: lancetta (it) f Japanese: メス (ja) (mesu) Kipchak: قان آلچی‎ (kan alçı) Middle English: launcet Navajo: tsah Old English: ǣderseax n Persian: نشتر‎ (fa) (neštar), نیشتر‎ (fa) (ništar) Polish: lancet (pl) m, skalpel (pl) m Portuguese: lanceta (pt) f Russian: ланце́т (ru) m (lancét) Spanish: lanceta (es) f Swedish: lansett (sv) Turkish: neşter (tr) Ukrainian: ланцет m (lancet)

Verb

lancet (third-person singular simple present lancets, present participle lanceting, simple past and past participle lanceted)

1. To pierce with a lancet.

References

1. Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “lancet”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
2. 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary

Anagrams

• cantel, cantle, cental

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Middle English

Noun

lancet

1. Alternative form of launcet

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French lancette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlan.t͡sɛt/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ant͡sɛt
• Syllabification: lan‧cet

Noun

lancet m inan

1. lancet (sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument)
2. lancet (small, sterile, single-use needle)

Declension

Declension of lancet

	singular	plural
nominative	lancet	lancety
genitive	lancetu	lancetów
dative	lancetowi	lancetom
accusative	lancet	lancety
instrumental	lancetem	lancetami
locative	lancecie	lancetach
vocative	lancecie	lancety

Further reading

• lancet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lancet in Polish dictionaries at PWN