SCRAPER

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1894 · p. 20

n. Skrap'u5r. An instrument for abrading a surface, [a, 48.] Tongue s. Lat., scalprum linguae. Fr., curelonque. Ger., Zungenkrcitzer, Zungenschaber. A whalebone, celluloid, or metallic strip used to scrape the desquamated epithelium, etc., from the dorsum of the tongue, [a. 34.] [s. 463]