TREPHINE
\tɹˈɛfiːn], \tɹˈɛfiːn], \t_ɹ_ˈɛ_f_iː_n]\
Definitions of TREPHINE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.
By Noah Webster.
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1. A modified and improved trepan, a cylindrical or crown saw used for the removal of a disc of bone, especially from the skull, or of other firm tissue as that of the cornea. 2. To remove a disc of bone or other tissue by means of a trephine.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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The modern trepan, having a little sharp borer called the centre pin.
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To perforate with the trephine.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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An improved trepan with a centre-pin, by which it is adjusted and set to work.
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To perforate with a trephine. See Trepan.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A crown-saw for removing a circular disk or button of bone, chiefly from the skull.
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To operate on with the trephine.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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