lancet

• launcet (obsolete)

From Middle English launcet, from Old French lancete, a diminutive of lance.^[1] By surface analysis, lance +‎ -et.

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

lancet (plural lancets)

1. A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
   • 2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 248:

     With a lancet, Håkan drained the slow blue blood from his leg, always fearing to find pus.

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.

• (sharp surgical instrument): fleam

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

1. To pierce with a lancet.

• cantel, cantle, cental

lancet

1. alternative form of launcet

Borrowed from French lancette.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlan.t͡sɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ant͡sɛt
• Syllabification: lan‧cet

lancet m inan

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

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