A medical instrument used in ancient and medieval medicine, possibly related to creating or treating fistulas.
From Latin fistula meaning 'a pipe or tube-like abnormality,' combined with instrumental suffix patterns. This is an extremely rare medical term from historical medical texts.
This is the kind of word that medieval physicians might have used—it sounds impressive and technical but was probably just a metal probe used to poke at infected wounds!
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