SPATULA
\spˈatjʊlə], \spˈatjʊlə], \s_p_ˈa_t_j_ʊ_l_ə]\
Definitions of SPATULA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Thin, dull, knife-like instrument used for compounding unguent, etc.
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An instrument used for spreading plasters, stirring ointments, holding down the tongue, &c. Also, the scapula.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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