lanced
Cut to drain
Lanced is the past tense of lance, meaning to pierce or cut open with a sharp instrument.
Doctors lance boils and abscesses to release fluid: The nurse lanced the infected wound.
The word also applies to piercing with a lance—the long spear used by mounted knights—though this sense is largely historical.
Had hole made
- puncturedPenetrated by sharp object
- stabbedPierced with blade
- impaledPierced through forcibly
- skeweredPierced by pointed rod
perforated · speared · thrust · pricked · gored · transfixed · incised · penetrated
Controlled cut into tissue
- scalpelPrecise surgical knife
- abscessLocalized pus collection
- boilHeat to bubbling point
- drainageLiquid removal system
sterile · cyst · suture · antiseptic · gauze · hemostat · cauterize · aspiration
pierced
Had hole made
skewered · perforated · speared · thrust · pricked · gored · transfixed · incised · penetrated · stuck
incision
Controlled cut into tissue
drainage · sterile · cyst · suture · antiseptic · gauze · hemostat · cauterize · aspiration · biopsy
joust
Mounted lance combat
- tournamentMulti-round competitive event
- knightHonored mounted soldier
- armorProtective combat covering
tilt · lists · charger · squire · chivalry · heraldry · unhorsed · champion · gauntlet · quintain
drained
Emptied of resources
- expelledOfficially removed or banished
- dischargedOfficially let go
- burstBreak apart suddenly
vented · oozed · exuded · evacuated · expressed · emptied · secreted · extruded · purged
lancedunlanced
Not surgically opened
untreated · neglected · unaddressed · undrained · left alone
- lance corporalLowest NCO grade
- Lance Armstrong
- Lance Bass
- Mitsubishi LancerJapanese compact sedan
- fire lanceEarly gunpowder weapon
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