trepan


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Synonyms for trepan

a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull

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a drill for cutting circular holes around a center

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cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery

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Trepan tools are most often are used where the hole-length-to-hole-diameter ratio is up to about four times.
Not the whole of the hole
The eyes were also treated in an innovative manner: the iris and pupil were engraved directly in the marble with the trepan, and this intensified the subject's look.
Francois Antonovich
182), which shows how many ways pointed or bladed objects can be used to sever, rip, and pierce human flesh, and the trepan in operation (p.
The Emergence of a Tradition: Technical Writing in the English Renaissance, 1475-1640
(24) yaptiklari calismada, arka segment uzunlugu 19 mm'den kisaysa 0,25 mm buyuk capli donor trepan, 21 mm'den uzunsa esit buyuklukte donor trepan kullanmislar ve gorme keskinligi, sferik esdeger ve keratometrik astigmatizmada daha iyi sonuclar elde edildigini bildirmislerdir.
Keratoconus association with axial myopia/Aksiyel myopi ile iliskili keratokonus
He would even amputate limbs or trepan (drill a hole in) the head, and if he was worth his salt he could cut off an arm in less than a minute.
With disease blighting the nation, our ancestors were not quite pictures of health; Sickness and ill health has been intertwined with Welsh history for centuries, writes Roger Morgan, of Cadw
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