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Evolutionary architecture and emergent design: Test-driven design - Part 1 trephine. org— dzone.com: latest front page
When the disk of bone does not at once come away in the trephine, the elevator or the special forceps for the purpose will easily remove it.— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
In cases of depressed or punctured fracture the trephine is occasionally required (when symptoms of compression are present) for the purpose of enabling the depressed portion to be elevated.— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
Windpipe trephine (trephining Small circular saw with a center pin mounted on a strong hollow metal shaft, used to remove circular disks of bone from the skull trocar Sharp-pointed instrument enclosed in a cannula, used for withdrawing fluid from a cavity, as the abdominal cavity tunica vaginalis Pouch of serous membrane covering the testis and derived from the peritoneum venesection (venisection, phlebotomy Opening a vein by incision or puncture to remove blood as a therapeutic treatment viz Contraction of the Latin "videre licet" meaning "it is permissible to see," The -z- is not a letter, but originally a twirl, representing the symbol for the ending -et.— Surgical Anatomy
Chauliac not only used the trephine, but laid down very exact indications for its application.— Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages

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