Lancet vs Cephalochordate - What's the difference?
lancet | cephalochordate |
A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
(metallurgy) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
Any of the primitive fishlike creatures, of the subphylum Cephalochordata , including the lancets, that lack a true spine but have a notochord which, in the case of cephalochordates, reaches into the head, contrary to the Urochordata
Of or pertaining to these creatures.
As nouns the difference between lancet and cephalochordate
is that lancet is a sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc while cephalochordate is any of the primitive fishlike creatures, of the subphylum cephalochordata , including the lancets, that lack a true spine but have a notochord which, in the case of cephalochordates, reaches into the head, contrary to the urochordata.As an adjective cephalochordate is
of or pertaining to these creatures.lancet
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Alternative forms
* launcet (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- (Knight)