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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull;
[syn: trepan, trephine]


VERB (1)

1. operate on with a trephine;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Trephine \Tre*phine"\ (?; 277), n. [A dim. of 1st trepan: cf. F. tr['e]phine.] (Surg.) An instrument for trepanning, being an improvement on the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Trephine \Tre*phine"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trephined; p. pr. & vb. n. Trephining.] To perforate with a trephine; to trepan. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

trephine n 1: a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull [syn: trepan, trephine] v 1: operate on with a trephine