trephine
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French tréphine, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trepan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹɪˈfaɪn/
Noun
trephine (plural trephines)
Synonyms
- trepan (obsolete)
Translations
Verb
trephine (third-person singular simple present trephines, present participle trephining, simple past and past participle trephined)
- (intransitive) To use a trephine during surgery.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula:
- "We shall wait," said Van Helsing, "just long enough to fix the best spot for trephining, so that we may most quickly and perfectly remove the blood clot, for it is evident that the haemorrhage is increasing."
- (transitive) To perforate with a trephine.
- 1901 August 16, “Veterinary Departmental Report for May, 1901”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 12, page 382:
- The pony was cast, and trephined, a middle-sized trephine (or bone saw) being used, which removed a circular piece of bone about the size of a two shilling piece, from the face immediately over the air cavity.
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