trephine

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We aspirated all brain tissue inside the trephine.

From Nature • Mar. 21, 2017

It is even probable that the trephine holes found in prehistoric skulls 50,000 years old were made for curative purposes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sharp point of this she pressed into her scalp over a trephine hole.

From Time Magazine Archive

He excises the cornea with a circular saw called a trephine, whose diameter is a shade more than one-sixth of an inch.

From Time Magazine Archive

Very numerous applications of the trephine have been made in the same individual—two, four, six, and even in one case twenty-seven disks having been removed from the same skull, and yet the patients have survived.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph