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trephine

[trih-fahyn, -feen] / trɪˈfaɪn, -ˈfin /


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We aspirated all brain tissue inside the trephine.

From Nature ● Mar. 21, 2017

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

The sharp point of this she pressed into her scalp over a trephine hole.

From Time Magazine Archive

The circle indicates the situation of the trephine hole.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre

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

One buphthalmic eye trephined by myself gave good results.

From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Willis O. Nance

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

Of the entire number five totally blind eyes were trephined.

From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Willis O. Nance

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

This being the case one cannot truthfully say that trephining alone can take the place of the old Graefe iridectomy.

From Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 by Willis O. Nance

The treatment of punctured wounds consists in enlarging the wounds in the soft parts, trephining the skull, and removing any foreign body that may be in it, purifying the track, and establishing drainage.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles




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