Pha-ryn′go-tome.
(Surgical.) An instrument to scarify inflamed tonsils and open abscesses in the parietes of the pharynx. It has a long, narrow blade with a lancet point, inclosed in a slightly curved silver sheath, in which it is carried to the part to be cut, and from which it is made to protrude by pressing a button at the end. The blade is retracted by a spring.
Phenakistoscope. |