surgical knife

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   a very sharp knife used in surgery

   Broaderknifesurgical instrument

   Narrowercatlinglancetscalpel

Questions about surgical knife

What does surgical knife mean?

surgical knife means "a very sharp knife used in surgery".

Is surgical knife a common word?

surgical knife is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.