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Definition of Perforator
1. n. One who, or that which, perforates; esp., a cephalotome.
Definition of Perforator
1. Noun. A tool or machine that makes holes, or perforates, materials such as paper and card. ¹
2. Noun. A machine that can bore a tunnel underground. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perforator
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Perforator
1. One who, or that which, perforates; especially, a cephalotome. Origin: Cf. F. Perforateur. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perforator
Literary usage of Perforator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the theory and practice of midwifery by Fleetwood Churchill, David Francis Condie (1862)
"151), and 2, a cranioclast, to break down the skull, and extract the head through
the pelvis (fig. 152). Fig. 151. The perforator. Fig. 152. ..."
2. Obstetrics, Normal and Operative by George Peaslee Shears (1916)
"Instruments necessary are the perforator of Blot or Simpson, the cranio- FIG.
399.—Simpson's perforator. clast of Braun, and in difficult cases the ..."
3. Obstetrics, the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1867)
"Forceps is for the Child, perforator for the Mother: Caesarean Section for the
Mother alone.—I fervently desire tbc Student to have a proper idea of the ..."
4. Obstetric Clinic: A Practical Contribution to the Study of Obstetrics and by George Thomson Elliot (1868)
"Introduction of the perforator.— Case: Perforation in a contracted conjugate.
... Case: Arm in the vagina; head above to the right; child dead; perforator ..."
5. The London Medical Gazette (1843)
"hand, slowly and carefully introduce the perforator, previously warmed ...
When the perforator has been introduced, in the manner represented in the ..."
6. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London: Vol. I-XLIX, for the Year by Obstetrical Society of London (1871)
"Dr. PLAYFAIR also exhibited for Mr. Matthews, the surgical instrument maker, of
Portugal Street, a guarded perforator invented by him. ..."
7. Practical Tunnelling by Frederick Walter Simms, Daniel Kinnear Clark (1896)
"A perforator weighed about 6 cwt. Consumption of compressed air and horse-power
of the perforator.—First, for the percussion-cylinder. ..."
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