scarificator
(ˈskærɪfɪˌkeɪtə(r))
[a. mod.L. scarīficātor (F. scarificateur, Paré 16th c.), f. late L. scarīficāre to scarify.]
1. Surg. An instrument used in scarification, for making several incisions simultaneously.
| 1611 Cotgr., Scarificateur, a Scarificator, or Scarifier; an Instrument wherein there are 18 sharpe wheeles, the which let goe at once doe scarifie, and make incision, in as many seuerall places. 1634 H. Crooke Expl. Instr. Chirurg. xxxii. 54 For this purpose Pareus hath an instrument which he calleth the Scarificator. It is a box wherein are fastened many rownd wheeles as it were, sharpe as phlegmes, which [etc.]. 1742 tr. Heister's Surg. (1768) ii. 402 This Eyebrush, or Scarificator. 1875 tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. X. 115 The useful scarificators devised by C. Mayer. |
b. (See quot.)
| 1858 Mayne Expos. Lex., Scarificator,..an instrument with a blunt edge, used chiefly in the operation of tooth-extraction, for separating the gum from the tooth. |
c. A lancet for scarifying the skin.
| 1861 Bumstead Ven. Dis. (1879) 434 The scarificator may be contaminated by contact with one person under the influence of syphilis and convey the disease to the next. |
† 2. Agric. = scarifier 3. Obs.
| 1776 Bowden Farmer's Director 12 By cutting the surface of the meadow with an instrument called a scarificator. 1814 J. Shirreff Agric. Orkney 67 The scarificator being afterwards, at seed time, used to loosen the soil, if necessary. |
3. One who scarifies; = scarifier 1.
| 1748 Richardson Clarissa IV. 84 What tho' the scarificators work upon him [a man mortally ill] day by day? |