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scalpel (medicine)


scalpel
<surgery> A small knife with a thin, keen blade, used by surgeons, and in dissecting.

Origin: L scalpellum, dim. Of scalprum a knife, akin to scalpere to cut, carve, scrape: cf. F. Scalpel.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Lechfeld, Battle of (sh)




(955) Battle in which the German king Otto I decisively defeated an invasion by the Magyars.

Fought on the Lechfeld, a plain near present-day Augsburg, Germany, it marked the last Hungarian effort to invade Germany.