Trephine

Definition: Trephine

Trephine

Noun

1. A surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull.

Verb

1. Operate on with a trephine.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trephine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references)

Synonym: Trephine

Crosswords: Trephine

Health

A trephine, an instrument like a cookie cutter, is used to remove the cloudy cornea. (references)

In corneal transplant surgery, the surgeon removes the central portion of the cloudy cornea and replaces it with a clear cornea, usually donated through an eye bank. A trephine, an instrument like a cookie cutter, is used to remove the cloudy cornea. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Arabic 

‏منشار الجمجمة (trepan), ‏نشر (apply, be published, bear, braying, bring out, broadcast, circulate, diffusion, dispose, disseminate, distribute, edition, expand, extend, fudge, gazette, give out, hang out, insert in a newspaper, irradiate, issue, overspread, peddle, pervade, popularize, print, proclaim, programming, promulgate, promulgation, propagation, publicize, publishing, put forth, put out, run, saw, sawing, sawn, scatter, shake out, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, thrust, unfold, unroll, unwrap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

правя трепанация (trepan), подобрена форма на трепан. (various references)

Danish

fraeser (bur, burr, dental drill, drill, trepan), fræser (bur, burr, drill, milling cutter, plough drill, trepan), bor (bore). (various references)

Dutch

tandboor (bur, burr, dental drill, drill, trepan). (various references)

French

trépan (trepan). (various references)

German

Pflugfräse (bur, burr, drill, milling cutter, plough drill, trepan), Fräser (milling cutter, molding cutter), Fräse (milling machine), Dentalbohrer (bur, burr, dental drill, drill, trepan), Bohrer (auger, augers, bore, borer, drill, driller, gimlet, wimble). (various references)

Greek 

χειρουργικό πριόνι, τρύπανο (gimlet, perforator), τρυπάνι (auger, bit, brace and bit, drill, gimlet), τρυπανίζω (drill), οστεοτρύπανο, οδοντιατρική φρέζα (bur, burr, dental drill, drill, trepan). (various references)

Italian

fresa (burr, cutter). (various references)

Pig Latin

ephinetray

Portuguese

trépano (trepan), operar com a trefina, buril (chisel, puncheon), broca dental (bur, burr, dental drill, drill, trepan). (various references)

Russian 

трепанировать трепан, производить трепанацию. (various references)

Spanish

trépano (trepan), taladro dental (dental drill), fresa dental (bur, burr, dental drill, drill, trepan). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "trephine": trephined, trephines. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Trephine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: trapline, trefonnen, Trehame, Trehane, Trehearne, trephan, trephing, trephining, triphenyl, tryphan. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nephrite.

-1 letter: neither, prithee, therein.

-2 letters: either, entire, herein, hinter, inhere, nether, pterin, repent, repine, retine, theine, threep, triene.

-3 letters: enter, ether, inept, inert, inter, ither, niter, nitre, peter, preen, print, rente, repin, retie, ripen, terne, thein, their, there, thine, three, thrip, treen, trine, tripe.

-4 letters: erne, heir, hent, here, hern, hint, hire, neep, nite, peen.

+1 letter: nephrites, phrenetic, threeping, trephined, trephines.

+2 letters: antiherpes, externship, hemipteran, interphase, permethrin, pinfeather, preheating, telphering.

+3 letters: externships, hemipterans, hemoprotein, interphases, metanephric, metanephroi, nephritides, parenthesis, parenthetic, pentarchies, permethrins, pinfeathers, rehypnotize, traineeship.

+4 letters: decipherment, encipherment, hemoproteins, housepainter, hyperintense, hyperkinetic, hypersthenic, hypertension, hypertensive, listenership, neuropathies, parenthesize, picturephone, prehensility, rehypnotized, rehypnotizes, stepchildren, stereophonic, superheating, telegraphing, traineeships.

+5 letters: decipherments, dryopithecine, encipherments, enteropathies, ethnographies, helicoptering, heterophonies, housepainters, hyperinflated, hypertensions, hypertensives, hypervirulent, iontophoreses, listenerships, morphogenetic, nephelometric, nephrectomies, nephrectomize, nephropathies, parenthesized, parenthesizes, parenthetical, phalansteries, phenmetrazine, picturephones, preanesthetic, precentorship, presidentship, pyrimethamine, replenishment, retinopathies, stenographies, stereophonies, terpsichorean, uprightnesses.