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Definition of Surgical instrument

1. Noun. A medical instrument used in surgery.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Surgical Instrument

Literary usage of Surgical instrument

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1881)
"... the surgical instrument makers. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. PERISCOPE. On Utero-Vaginal Injections in Childbed. In January, before the Obstetrical Society of ..."

2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"surgical instrument». "Tools," as used In a statute exempting tools from execution, includes the surgical instruments of a physician. ..."

3. 1795-1895. One Hundred Years of American Commerce ...: A History of American by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1895)
"surgical instrumentS SURGICAL-INSTRUMENT manufacture in America began, so far as learned, in 1826, when George Tie- mann, a German, commenced to grind, ..."

4. Life and Labour of the People in London by Charles Booth (1895)
"surgical instrument MAKING. The demand for surgical and scientific instruments is ... Hospitals are the chief customers of surgical instrument makers, ..."

5. Harper's Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities by Harry Thurston Peck (1897)
"It is uncertain for what particular purpose it was used : Kühn conjectures that (if it be a surgical instrument at all) it may have been made with such a ..."

6. The London Medical Gazette (1832)
"Evans, the surgical instrument-makers, of Old Change, London, where the apparatus may be seen, and, should it be found beneficial, 1 shall not regret having ..."

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