trephine
tre·phine (tr
-f
n
)
n.
A surgical instrument having circular, sawlike edges, used to cut out disks of bone, usually from the skull.
tr.v. tre·phined, tre·phin·ing, tre·phines
To operate on with a trephine.
[French tréphine, from obsolete English trefine, from Latin tr
s fns, three ends : trs, three; see trei- in Indo-European roots + fns, pl. of fnis, end.]
treph
i·nation (tr
f
-n
shn) n.
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| Noun | 1. |  trephine – a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull
surgical instrument – a medical instrument used in surgery
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| Verb | 1. |  trephine – operate on with a trephine
operate on, operate – perform surgery on; “The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life”
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