trephine

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

The experience which time and circumstances have afforded me in injuries of the head induced me to depart from the commonly received principles by which surgeons are governed in the use of the trephine.

From Pioneer Surgery in Kentucky A Sketch by Yandell, David Wendel