Trephines is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 556 anagrams from letters in trephines (eehinprst).
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
And the use of the trephine, where the affected side can be distinguished.
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.
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 suffusion of the brain will increase quickly, so we must trephine at once or it may be too late.
Hippocrates, we have seen, uses the words and to denote the trephine.
He had been searching for two hours when he found the trephine.
The Latin term for the trephine, modiolus, has the same meaning.
The galvano-cautery, trephine, and spokeshave should be avoided.
The case had almost to a certainty been smashed to pieces; still, there was a chance that the trephine had escaped injury.
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