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English
Etymology
From Latin scalprum.
Noun
scalprum (plural scalpra)
- 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.
- A large strong scalpel.
Latin
Etymology
From scalpō + -rum (instrument-noun-forming suffix).
Noun
scalprum n (genitive scalprī); second declension
- scraper (tool)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “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