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Definition of Trephining
1. trephine [v] - See also: trephine
Medical Definition of Trephining
1. The removal of a circular disk of the cranium. It is performed with a trephine, a small circular saw with a centre pin mounted on a hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trephining
Literary usage of Trephining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual for the Practice of Surgery by Thomas Bryant (1881)
"JBR] THE OPERATION OF trephining OR FOR THE ELEVATION OF DEPRESSED BONE. "
Much has been written and said on the treatment of injuries to the head; ..."
2. Wounds in war: The Mechanism of the Production and Their Treatment by William Flack Stevenson (1898)
"The Operation of trephining for Gunshots of the Cranium. —The question of the
advisability of the operation of trephining in cases of gunshot fractures of ..."
3. Ophthalmology; Essays, Abstracts and Reviews. edited by Henry Vanderbilt Würdemann, Nelson Miles Black (1906)
"Since the epoch in which Quincke proposed the lumbar puncture in serous meningitis,
and Horsley proposed simple palliative trephining in operable cerebral ..."
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