scalprum

From Latin scalprum.

scalprum (plural scalpra)

1. A toothed raspatory used in trephining and in removing carious bone.
   • 1819, Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary:

     After making the incision, the pericranium must be raised a little from the bone with the edge of the knife, to clear the bone, and the scalprum employed.

2. A large strong scalpel.

• scalper

From scalpō +‎ -rum (instrument-noun-forming suffix).

scalprum n (genitive scalprī); second declension

1. scraper (tool)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• scalpellum

• Catalan: escarpre, escarpra
• French: échoppe
• Galician: escoupro
• Italian: scalpro
• Portuguese: escopro
• Spanish: escalplo, escoplo

• “scalprum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scalprum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scalprum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scalprum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “scalprum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin