(see prec.) trans. To operate upon with a trephine. Also absol.
1804. Abernethy, Surg. Obs., 174. Which opinions would induce us to trephine in cases of slight depression [of bone in fractured skull].
1860. O. W. Holmes, Elsie V., xxvi. He was trephined at Greenwich Hospital.
1892. ‘G. Travers,’ Mona Maclean (1893), III. 102. A fractured skull came in just as I was leaving, and I waited to see them trephine.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 293. The sinus is then exposed by trephining the mastoid.
Hence Trephined ppl. a., Trephining vbl. sb. (also attrib.); also Trephination, the operation of trephining.
1862. Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit., II. No. 3552. Trephining Instruments.
1874. Roosa, Dis. Ear, 425. Many cases of trephination of the mastoid.
1886. Athenæum, 24 April, 557/2. A skull … which exhibits a remarkable instance of post-mortem trephining. Ibid. (1891), 19 Sept., 390/3. Amulets from portions of the trephined skulls.
