Synonyms for trephine
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : trih-fahyn, -feen |
| Phonetic Transcription : trɪˈfaɪn, -ˈfin |
Top 10 synonyms for trephine Other synonyms for the word trephine
Définition of trephine
- As in drill : noun tool for boring
- And the use of the trephine, where the affected side can be distinguished.
- Extract from : « Zoonomia, Vol. II » by Erasmus Darwin
- He had been searching for two hours when he found the trephine.
- Extract from : « The Pools of Silence » by H. de Vere Stacpoole
- A trephine is just like a corkscrew, only in place of the screw you have a cup of steel.
- Extract from : « The Pools of Silence » by H. de Vere Stacpoole
- From Celsus too we learn that the trephine was driven by a thong.
- Extract from : « Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times » by John Stewart Milne
- Hippocrates, we have seen, uses the words and to denote the trephine.
- Extract from : « Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times » by John Stewart Milne
- The Latin term for the trephine, modiolus, has the same meaning.
- Extract from : « Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times » by John Stewart Milne
- The galvano-cautery, trephine, and spokeshave should be avoided.
- Extract from : « A System of Operative Surgery, Volume IV (of 4) » by Various
- The suffusion of the brain will increase quickly, so we must trephine at once or it may be too late.
- Extract from : « Dracula » by Bram Stoker
- The case had almost to a certainty been smashed to pieces; still, there was a chance that the trephine had escaped injury.
- Extract from : « The Pools of Silence » by H. de Vere Stacpoole
- 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.
- Extract from : « Old-Time Makers of Medicine » by James J. Walsh
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