trephine

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We aspirated all brain tissue inside the trephine.

From Nature • Mar. 21, 2017

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

He has already applied the trephine to the cold-storage eye which an assistant holds by means of sterile gauze.

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

I do not advise trephining in the secondary glaucoma following intumescent cataract, for in such cases the semi-fluid lens bulges into and blocks the trephine hole.

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