WordUnscrambler Home
scalpel
Definitions
[ˈskalpl], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a knife with a small, sharp, sometimes detachable blade, as used by a surgeon
Phrases:
Origin
:
mid 18th century: from French, or from Latin scalpellum, diminutive of scalprum ‘chisel’, from scalpere ‘to scratch’
Click here to see the free dictionary definition for scalpel
definition by Oxford Dictionaries