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scalpel (medicine)


scalpel
<surgery> A small knife with a thin, keen blade, used by surgeons, and in dissecting.

Origin: L scalpellum, dim. Of scalprum a knife, akin to scalpere to cut, carve, scrape: cf. F. Scalpel.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Fecalith (health)


A hard stony mass of feces. A fecalith can obstruct the appendix, leading to appendicitis. Fecaliths also can obstruct diverticuli. Called also a coprolith and stercolith.