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
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 has already applied the trephine to the cold-storage eye which an assistant holds by means of sterile gauze.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he started to search hither and thither for the precious mahogany case which held the amputating knives, the tourniquets and the trephine.
From The Pools of Silence by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
But with items such as a circa 1500 Austrian amputation saw and trephined Peruvian skulls from 4,000 years ago, upon which cranial surgery was performed, it’s aware of its yuck factor.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2018
Dr. Erich Kosterlitz had trephined the girl as a last effort to cure her of epilepsy.
From Time Magazine Archive
He trephined the skull, extracted the bullet that had lodged beneath it, and bound back in place that erratic eye.
From The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by Ellen Newbold La Motte
If the symptoms point to suppuration having occurred between the bone and the dura, the skull should be trephined and further bone removed with the rongeur forceps as may be required.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
The patient was trephined by the surgeons of the German ambulance at Jacobsdal.
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 George Henry Makins
The museum’s artist-in-residence program features forensic sculptor Kathleen Gallo, who has given faces to the ancients who endured trephining.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2021
"The operation of trephining the skull, which was widely and successfully practiced by primitive peoples in nearly all parts of the world, may be considered the highest achievement of prehistoric surgeons."
From Time Magazine Archive
Once the trephining of the skull was over . . . my mood underwent a change.
From Time Magazine Archive
My conclusions as to these two operations are favorable to the trephining operation because the Herbert tongue flap operation is much more difficult, and hence less certain than the Elliot trephining operation.
From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Willis O. Nance
The treatment consists in trephining through the frontal bone or through the temporal fossa, according to the site of the abscess and its seat of origin.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
