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Definition of Trephine
1. Noun. A surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull.
2. Verb. Operate on with a trephine.
Definition of Trephine
1. n. An instrument for trepanning, being an improvement on the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin.
2. v. t. To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.
Definition of Trephine
1. Noun. (medicine) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trepan. ¹
2. Verb. To use a trephine during surgery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trephine
1. to operate on with a surgical saw [v -PHINED, -PHINING, -PHINES]
Medical Definition of Trephine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Trephine
Literary usage of Trephine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brain Surgery by Moses Allen Starr (1893)
"trephine opening to expose sinus, five-eighths of an inch in diameter, ...
The position of the trephine openings which must be made for the relief of ..."
2. Ophthalmic surgery by Josef Meller (1908)
"The cutting edge of the trephine should project very little, ... The eye is held
by forceps, and the trephine placed with slight pressure upon the cornea in ..."
3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1879)
"law touching the use of the trephine about which there is no difference of opinion.
Being an important, clear, and undisputed law, it should, I think, ..."
4. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1845)
"Application of the trephine.—" If there be a wound communicating with the bones
of the skull, accompanied with fracture and depression, in such cases, ..."
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