The simplest is to crush the anthers, thus squeezing out the pollen, after which, with a brush, scalpel or other instrument, it may be placed upon the stigma.
A brush is very wasteful of pollen and often becomes a source of contamination to future crosses, so that the scalpel is the better implement of the two.
The dissection may be conducted with the aid of a small scalpel or other very sharp knife, the parts being arranged or adjusted by means of a needle, mounted in a handle, and held in the left hand.
With a few dexterous strokes of his scalpel Captain Dowden removed all that was left of the eyeball, a dark, amorphous mess.
With his scalpel the surgeon made a deep cut in the knee-joint and searched the cavity with his finger.
Rather," replied Captain Crawford, who had come over from his table holding a blood-stained scalpel in his hand.
The number of complications is so great that nothing but patient tracing out with forceps and scalpel for himself will ever teach a man anatomy.
Every portion removed by his scalpel was carefully gathered up by a porter, and every night and morning placed in a coffin in the vaults below.
The busy scalpel of the anatomy student will be engaged on every limb and feature in "getting out," as it is termed, his "part.
The microscope, the test-tube, and the scalpel had dissipated much of young Elsworth's faith, and he had not cared to conceal it.
Dropping my scalpel with a rush, I made for the staircase, and in real terror of being locked in for the night, shouted to be let out.
Poor Coleman heard the call of duty, laid down the scalpel and took up the cheese-cutter, and so supported his mother and his sisters.
No stethoscope can discern the sound of an expectation, and no scalpel can lay bare a dream; yet there are expectations and dreams.
For this purpose I took up the scalpel and moved its point close to one or the other of the crural nerves of the frog, while at the same time one of my assistants elicited sparks from the electric machine.
If the skeleton is smaller than a fox, leave the legs attached to the body, for convenience, until you have cut the flesh away from them with your scalpel or pocket-knife, without any disjointing.
For skinning a small bird, the only instrument imperatively necessary is a good-sized scalpel or a sharp penknife.
In skinning out the ear cartilage, a sharp scalpel of large size, or a cartilage-knife, is the best instrument, and it should be held in the fingers precisely as one holds a pen in writing.
In doing so with a small scalpel his shirt-sleeves became saturated with blood, &c.
The lungs were not examined, as the deceased had only a small scalpel with him.
The anatomy of the scalpel and the amphitheatre was, then, becoming an exhausted branch of investigation.
Hodges, whose admirable skill, working through the swiftest and surest fingers that ever held a scalpel among us, has delighted class after class, and filled our Museum with monuments which will convey his name to unborn generations?
That is the reason why I, the Professor, am picking her to pieces with scalpel and forceps.
But it will require more facts than one to persuade the profession that this mishap of the scalpel can grow into a rule of practice.
I assure you that he is equally skilful with scalpel and with microscope.
But what are they finding, more and more, below their facts, below all phenomena which the scalpel and the microscope can show?
A wonder which all the discoveries of the scalpel and the microscope have been as yet unable, and will be, I believe, to the last unable, to unravel, even to touch?
The lower end of the larynx is hooked forward, and dissected away from the œsophagus by means of scissors or a sharp scalpel (Fig.
The surgeon need not be in a great hurry to use the scalpel in these cases, for it seems occasionally as if the skin would slough, and yet when it is incised no pus escapes.
The process of denudation should be carried out with a scalpel or pointed curved scissors.
You have been examining the human body with the scalpel and the microscope of the anatomist and physiologist.
We must use the forceps and scalpel and microscope of the anatomist and physiologist.
Trying the edge of his scalpelon his nail, he turned to the students and physicians, and began to talk of the German method of conducting a post mortem.
We French, however, begin here," he said, lightly placing his scalpel on the tender flesh.
Is it a thing so utterly dead as to be fit only for the scalpel and the microscope?
Raise the agar block on the blade of the scalpel and transfer it, under side down, to the centre of a sterile slide.
With forceps and scalpel dissect out the muscles lying in the furrow on either side of the spinal processes.
When the oozing from the incisions has ceased, rub the inoculum into the scarifications by means of the flat of a scalpel blade, or a sterile platinum spatula.
Mark out with a sharp scalpel a crescentic flap of skin muscle, etc.
Invert the preparation and with the blade of the scalpel remove the slide from the agar block.
With sterile forceps and scalpel incise the skin in the middle line from the top of the sternum to the pubes.
The officer seized the scalpel which the demonstrator had laid aside, and slashed through the straps that bound the victim down.
With the suspended scalpel in his hand, the demonstrator turned impatiently.
He assured her that he would give her no pain; but while he left her to fetch the scalpel and the dressings he heard a queer drumming noise and turned to see that it was made by the heels of his patient trembling on the floor.
It was almost pleasant to watch the deftness with which he defined the line of a pink, injected artery, wielding his scalpel as delicately and as surely as a painter at work on a canvas.
A scalpel should be taken, and an incision made into the urethra.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scalpel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: hatchet; instrument; jackknife; pick; syringe; tool
