A trephine is a medical saw used to open the skull for surgery or to relieve pressure from brain swelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Bones]

The trephine holes are too large by today's standards.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Bones]

After Rowsey performed the trephine surgery on him in 1995, Rogers became legally blind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trials--And Errors] Reference

With a small trephine (diameter 6 mm.) remove a circular piece of bone from the parietal segment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

In the latter disease, it is sometimes necessary to trephine and wash out the sinus or sinuses affected with an antiseptic solution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

After the removing of the trephine, the doctors will use the donor cornea for cutting a circular graft, meaning a button-shaped section of tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cornea Transplants -Corneal Transplantation Surgical Proceedure] Reference

The warrants sought the records of all male patients under the age of sixteen who underwent brain surgery entailing the use of a trephine drill between 1975 and 1985.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Bones]

Sometimes it is brought out with the trephine itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference

The trephine is not mentioned at all in Peter Lowe's book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference

He had been searching for two hours when he found the trephine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pools of Silence] Reference

And the use of the trephine, where the affected side can be distinguished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Their removal may also be satisfactorily effected with a minute cutaneous trephine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

Evolutionary architecture and emergent design: Test-driven design - Part 1 trephine. org.    From Wordnik.com.  [dzone.com: latest front page] Reference

Chauliac not only used the trephine, but laid down very exact indications for its application.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference

The suffusion of the brain will increase quickly, so we must trephine at once or it may be too late.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dracula] Reference

The pericranium should then be raised from the centre, for a space large enough to hold the crown of the trephine.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

The case had almost to a certainty been smashed to pieces; still, there was a chance that the trephine had escaped injury.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pools of Silence] Reference

If a fracture is found the surgeon should trephine so as to relieve the brain of any pressure of blood that might be affecting it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference

The suffusion of the brain will increase quickly, so we must trephine at once or it may be too late.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dracula] Reference

I sent for my trephine.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strange Discovery] Reference

Windpipe. trephine (trephining).    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Audit of bone marrow trephine biopsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

Removal as a trephine disc by giggly saw. e.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

(g) Placing of trephine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference

(h) Technique of using trephine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference

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"This is a trephine pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Bones]