Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scalpellum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SCALPEL'LUM and -US (σμιλίον). Diminutive of SCALPER or SCALPRUM. A small sharp surgical knife, employed for cutting away the proud flesh round a wound (Columell. vi. 32. Plin. H. N. xxviii. 28. Cic. Sext. 65.); and for opening veins to let blood. (Cels. ii. 10.)