trephine
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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
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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
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The sharp point of this she pressed into her scalp over a trephine hole.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She wielded the trephine that laid the patient's brain bare, he kept track of the patient's life by observing the squiggles on the roll of graph paper that emerged from his encephalograph.
From The Fourth R by Smith, George Oliver
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