trephine
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We aspirated all brain tissue inside the trephine.
From Nature • Mar. 21, 2017
The sharp point of this she pressed into her scalp over a trephine hole.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has already applied the trephine to the cold-storage eye which an assistant holds by means of sterile gauze.
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
A slight prominence and a fissure was discovered in the temporal bone, and over this a trephine was applied.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry
