Definitions for trephine

trephine tre·phine

Spelling: [trih-fahyn, -feen]
IPA: /trɪˈfaɪn, -ˈfin/

Trephine is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 251 anagrams from letters in trephine (eehinprt).

Definitions for trephine

noun

  1. a small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft to which is attached a transverse handle: used in surgery to remove circular disks of bone from the skull.

verb (used with object)

  1. to operate upon with a trephine.

Origin of trephine

1620-30; spelling variant of trefine, orig. trafine, blend of trapan (variant of trepan1) and Latin phrase trēs fīnēs three ends (the inventor's explanat

Examples for trephine

The case had almost to a certainty been smashed to pieces; still, there was a chance that the trephine had escaped injury.

A trephine is just like a corkscrew, only in place of the screw you have a cup of steel.

From Celsus too we learn that the trephine was driven by a thong.

The galvano-cautery, trephine, and spokeshave should be avoided.

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.

The suffusion of the brain will increase quickly, so we must trephine at once or it may be too late.

He had been searching for two hours when he found the trephine.

The Latin term for the trephine, modiolus, has the same meaning.

Hippocrates, we have seen, uses the words and to denote the trephine.

And the use of the trephine, where the affected side can be distinguished.

Word Value for trephine
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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