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Bistoury   Listen
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Bistoury  n.  (pl. bistouries)  A surgical instrument consisting of a slender knife, either straight or curved, generally used by introducing it beneath the part to be divided, and cutting towards the surface.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... be carried out in this operation, as boiling the instruments and then covering them with Carbolated Vaseline. Then with a hidden bistoury or a knife concealed in a tube, force upward into the teat, then press out the little blade and draw the instrument down the teat, making about four incisions equal distance apart around the inner surface of the teat. The use of self-retaining teat dilators prevents ...
— The Veterinarian • Chas. J. Korinek



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