trephine
Sign in to savethumb|A trephine with a center pin can be seen on the left. thumb|right|Dr. John Clarke [[trepanning a skull, ca. 1664, in one of the earliest American portraits. Clarke has a trephine in his right hand. The painting is in Harvard Medical School.]]
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It sits within the topics Hole making and Surgical instruments.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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- surgical instrument
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- Trephine with bit attached, Strasbourg, France, 1780-1820 Wellcome L0057528.jpg
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- trepanning
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thumb|A trephine with a center pin can be seen on the left. thumb|right|Dr. John Clarke [[trepanning a skull, ca. 1664, in one of the earliest American portraits. Clarke has a trephine in his right hand. The painting is in Harvard Medical School.]]
A trephine (; from Greek τρύπανον, trypanon 'instrument for boring') is a surgical instrument with a cylindrical blade. It can be of one of several dimensions and designs depending on what it is meant to be used for. A trephine may be specially designed for obtaining a cylindrically shaped core of bone that can be used for tests and bone studies, cutting holes in bones (e.g., the skull), or cutting out a round piece of the cornea for eye surgery.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “trephine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.