Crossword-Solution: TREPHINES 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

With few exceptions, therefore, designed to meet emergencies, my set of instruments formed a supplement to the actual necessities carried by the Service hospitals, and was as follows:--4 trephines, Horsley's elevator, brain knife and seeker.

Many nights thereafter, Rose was to start up from troubled sleep with strange sounds and stranger words echoing in her brain--words like "bevelled trephines," "Hudson forceps," "elevators," "Horsley's wax," "rongeurs," "clips" and "sponges,"--but during the actual operation she was scarcely conscious of them, and her principal feeling was one of dumb rebellion which grew until she found herself almost hating _this_ Donald, who could speak with such unconcern and apparent callousness, at such a time.

With his hands full of chisels, trephines, and mallets Marcy went to cross the room, and chanced to trip on a rug, falling headlong.

But if it is of a stony hardness we make an incision, and pare it off, removing the prominent part by chisels, if need be, and boring it with trephines.