Trephine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A surgical instrument having circular, sawlike edges, used to cut out disks of bone, usually from the skull.
  • v. To operate on with a trephine.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trepan.
  • v. To use a trephine during surgery.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • v. To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An improved form of the trepan, consisting of a cylindrical saw with a handle placed transversely, like that of a gimlet, and having a sharp steel point called the center-pin.
  • To operate upon with a trephine; trepan.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull
  • v. operate on with a trephine
    • Verb Form
    trephined    trephines    trephining   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    surgical instrument    operate    operate on   
    Form
    trephined    trephining   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    trepan   
    Same Context
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