Crossword-Solution: TREPHINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Trephine | n. | 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. |
| Trephine | v. t. | To perforate with a trephine; to trepan. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TREPHINE | anagram | NEPHRITE, THREEPIN |
We have 4 clues for the answer “TREPHINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| surgical saw | 3 answers |
| trepan | 4 answers |
| SAW, type of | 9 answers |
| Saw | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EECZMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TREPHINE (5)
The suffusion of the brain will increase quickly, so we must trephine at once or it may be too late.” As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door.
Then we must have recourse to the trephine." He lifted the instrument as he spoke, and gazed at it with every mark of affection.
His scalp was almost torn from his head, and a large piece of skull some three inches in diameter was broken out and lifted from the brain as cleanly as if done by the surgeon's trephine.
When hyperostosis and sclerosis of the bone is attended with severe pain which does not yield to blistering, the periosteum may be incised and the sclerosed bone perforated with a drill or trephine.
MEDICAL TREATMENT: After the animal once becomes infected with these grubs, bore holes (trephine) through the skull with a sharp instrument made for this purpose and remove the grubs.