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A surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull
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trephine
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
an improved kind of trepan, 1620s, from French trephine , which is said to be from Latin tres fines "three ends," but perhaps rather an arbitrary diminutive of trepan . As a verb from 1804. Related: Trephining ; trephination .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trephine \Tre*phine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trephined ; p. pr. & vb. n. Trephining .] To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A trephine (; from Greek trypanon , meaning an instrument for boring) is a surgical instrument with a cylindrical blade . It can be of one of several dimensions and designs depending on what it is going to be used for. They may be specially designed for ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull [syn: trepan ] v. operate on with a trephine
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trepan. vb. To use a trephine during surgery.
Usage examples of trephine.
Indian doctors performed Caesarian operations, trephined for brain surgery and used anesthetics.
To one sitte there lay the grim saws, retractors, tenacula, scalpels, bistouries (sharp and blunt-pointed), forceps, trephines, single-edged amputating knives and catlings, arranged with loving care by Poll and her friend the bosun's wife's sister, both of whom wore starched aprons, bibs and sleeves, and white caps.
To one sitte there lay the grim saws, retractors, tenacula, scalpels, bistouries (sharp and blunt-pointed), forceps, trephines, single-edged amputating knives and catlings, arranged with loving care by Poll and her friend the bosun’s wife’s sister, both of whom wore starched aprons, bibs and sleeves, and white caps.
An array of grim saws, retractors, scalpels, forceps, trephines, catlings and other mysterious torture instruments were arranged with loving care by Mrs.
It wasn't just a simple trephining job that had been done on this increasingly mysterious liar.
I thought what would happen to his poor head, with the mark of trephining all the way around it, if I were to put the skull under the press and start applying it.