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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
trephine .
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Examples
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Of the entire number five totally blind eyes were trephined.
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A man of mine with his head shattered and his hand shot through was trephined last night, and his longitudinal sinus packed with gauze.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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Suppose he had never been trephined, when would his intelligence have returned?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various
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In India I have gone farther than this, and where one eye has shown high tension, I have frequently trephined both.
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The purpose of an iridectomy is to avoid the danger of the iris in the neighborhood of the wound being drawn and impacted in the trephined hole.
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I have a man wounded in eight places, including a fractured elbow and a fractured skull, which has been trephined.
Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous
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The patient was trephined by the surgeons of the German ambulance at Jacobsdal.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins
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Fifteen months afterwards he was trephined at Greenwich Hospital, having been insensible all that time.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various
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One buphthalmic eye trephined by myself gave good results.
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He trephined the skull, extracted the bullet that had lodged beneath it, and bound back in place that erratic eye.
The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917
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