Trephine

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  • noun. A surgical instrument with a cylindrical saw usually used for removing a disk of bone, especially from the skull, or for removing corneal tissue.
  • transitive verb. To operate on with a trephine.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To operate upon with a trephine; trepan.
  • noun. 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • transitive verb. To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trepan.
  • verb. To use a trephine during surgery.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull
  • verb. operate on with a trephine
    • Word Usage
    "The surgical team will fix a metal ring over the sclera, providing a base for the trephine, that is placed over the cornea, in order to cut it."
    Form
    trephined  trephining  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    operate  operate on  surgical instrument  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cranium  fontanel  inorder  phrenology  tomcat  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    trepan  
    verb-form
    trephined  trephines  trephining  
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