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 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

He has already applied the trephine to the cold-storage eye which an assistant holds by means of sterile gauze.

From Time Magazine Archive

Carnochan's Operation.—Exposing the whole front wall of antrum, its cavity is opened into from the front by a large trephine.

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