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Definition of trephine in English: trephinenoun trɪˈfʌɪntrɪˈfiːn A hole saw used in surgery to remove a circle of tissue or bone. Example sentencesExamples - The only difference in processing of the BM core and clot was decalcification of the trephine core biopsy.
- In 2 cases, a bone marrow trephine biopsy was also available for examination.
- The instrument for this is still called a trephine.
- The bone marrow aspirate was similar to the trephine, with 15% of blasts showing monocytoid differentiation together with an absolute monocytosis and mild dyserythropoiesis.
- An instrument that acts like a cookie cutter, called a trephine, cuts a precise circular shape.
verbtrɪˈfʌɪntrɪˈfiːn [with object]Operate on with a trephine. Example sentencesExamples - The invention relates to a method and apparatus for trephining corneal tissue in preparation for keratoplasty.
Derivatives nounˌtrɛfɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n Reports of trepanation (or trephination) have been spotty throughout history, but there is little doubt of its existence dating back to Neolithic times. Example sentencesExamples - However - remarkably and inexplicably - the earliest major surgery of which we have undoubted evidence is trephination of the skull, which dates back to at least 5000 BC in the Stone Age period.
- Old types of corneal prostheses required a full trephination of the cornea.
- As in trephination performed by the Incas who traded their melancholy for a helmet made from a turtle shell.
- He excelled in both, as a professor of surgery at the Bicetre in Paris and as a noted anthropologist dealing with a plethora of subjects, including the Cro-Magnon man and Neolithic trephination.
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin tres fines 'three ends', apparently influenced by trepan. Definition of trephine in US English: trephinenoun A hole saw used in surgery to remove a circle of tissue or bone. Example sentencesExamples - The bone marrow aspirate was similar to the trephine, with 15% of blasts showing monocytoid differentiation together with an absolute monocytosis and mild dyserythropoiesis.
- In 2 cases, a bone marrow trephine biopsy was also available for examination.
- The only difference in processing of the BM core and clot was decalcification of the trephine core biopsy.
- An instrument that acts like a cookie cutter, called a trephine, cuts a precise circular shape.
- The instrument for this is still called a trephine.
verb [with object]Operate on with a trephine. Example sentencesExamples - The invention relates to a method and apparatus for trephining corneal tissue in preparation for keratoplasty.
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin tres fines ‘three ends’, apparently influenced by trepan. |