surgical scissors
When I was a little girl, I dreaded going to the hospital. I was so scared of being cut open. I had seen TV shows wherein, the doctors had to cut open patients and I was scared that someday someone would cut me open. I knew what surgical scissors looked like because I had seen them countless times whenever my brother and I had to be bandaged. I also saw dentists use surgical scissors when they sewed me up after surgery on an impacted molar.
When I was in college, I had to have an operation to remove a benign cyst on my right arm. The doctors had given me local anesthesia to numb the arm as they opened my arm. Since I was awake the whole time, I watched the doctor slice my arm with a surgical knife, remove the cyst and sew me back up with surgical scissors and thread. It was no big deal, I did not feel any pain until the anesthesia wore off.