trephine is a valid English word

Scrabble validity: valid ( international - Sowpods, US - Twl06 )
iScramble validity: valid
QuickWords validity: valid

Meanings

Noun (COUNTABLE)

Singular Plural
trephine trephines
    (medicine) A surgical instrument with a cylindrical blade used to remove a circular section of tissue, f.e. bone or cornea; a trepan.
    • They removed a core of bone as well as took a bone marrow aspirate from my right hip using a trephine to exclude me having a blood cancer, causing a blood- and serum-stained shirt, a whopping hematoma and a great deal of mental anguish and physical pain in the process!

Verb

Verb Present simple 3sg Present participle Past simple Past participle
trephine trephines trephining trephined trephined
    (intransitive) To use a trephine during surgery.
    (transitive) To perforate with a trephine.

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