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Virus That Is Pierced By Old Medical Instrument Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is BOUGIE which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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noun

• A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.

• A wax candle.

adjective

• (usually derogatory) Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery).

• Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1.

28%12Instrument that measures the resistance of a material to being pierced
noun

• A mechanical device that measures the ease of penetration of an object into a semisolid

• A device that measures the penetrating power of electromagnetic radiation (especially X-rays)

28%7 Poked or pierced with a pointed instrument
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The Guardian Cryptic15 Sep 2020 Down 19
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