Lancet most commonly refers to ''
The Lancet
''The Lancet'' is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal, founded in England in 1823. It is one of the world's highest-impact academic journals and also one of the oldest medical journals still in publication.
The journal publishes ...
'', a medical journal.
It may also refer to:
Medicine
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Lancet (surgery)
A scalpel or bistoury is a small and extremely sharp bladed instrument used for surgery, anatomical dissection, podiatry and various handicrafts. A lancet is a double-edged scalpel.
Scalpel blades are usually made of hardened and tempered ste ...
, a cutting instrument with a double-edged blade and a pointed end for making small incisions or drainage punctures.
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Blood lancet
A blood lancet, or simply lancet, is a small medical implement used for capillary blood sampling. A blood lancet, sometimes called a lance, is similar to a scalpel style lancet, but with a double-edged blade and a pointed end. It can even be a ...
, a pricking needle used to obtain drops of blood for testing
Architecture
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Lancet arch
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High Middle Ages, High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It evolved f ...
, a narrow, tall opening with a pointed arch
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Lancet window
A lancet window is a tall, narrow window with a sharp pointed arch at its top. This arch may or may not be a steep lancet arch (in which the compass centres for drawing the arch fall outside the opening). It acquired the "lancet" name from its rese ...
, a window set in a lancet arch
People
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Doron Lancet
Doron Lancet () is an Israeli human geneticist. He is the Ralph D. and Lois R. Silver Professor of Human Genomics and head of the Crown Human Genome Center at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is known for researching the genetic basis of olfa ...
, Israeli geneticist
Other uses
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Dennis Lancet
The Dennis Lancet was a lightweight underfloor-engined chassis manufactured by Dennis during the 1980s.
The Lancet nameplate was previously carried by a front-engined chassis, and later, in the 1950s and early 1960s, to the underfloor-engined L ...
, a bus chassis
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LG Lancet
The LG Lancet is a low-end budget smartphone made by LG Electronics. It was first launched as a Windows Phone 8.1 device in July 2015 and was made available in an Android 5.1 version in October of 2015. Both devices were available from Verizon W ...
, a Windows smartphone
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ZALA Lancet
The ZALA Lancet (official designation: ''Item 52/Item 51'') is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and loitering munition developed by the Russian company ZALA Aero Group (part of Kalashnikov Concern) for the Russian Armed Forces. It was first unvei ...
, a Russian military drone
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Lancelet
The lancelets ( ), also known as amphioxi (: amphioxus ), consist of 32 described species of somewhat fish-like benthic filter feeding chordates in the subphylum Cephalochordata, class Leptocardii, and family Branchiostomatidae.
Lancelets dive ...
, an animal
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Lance (disambiguation)
A lance is a pole weapon based on the spear.
Lance may also refer to:
People
* Lance (given name), including a list of people with the name
* Lance (surname), including a list of people with the name
In the military
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