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Trephine vs Sindon - What's the difference?

trephine | sindon |

As nouns the difference between trephine and sindon

is that trephine is (medicine) a surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trepan while sindon is (obsolete) a wrapper.

As a verb trephine

is to use a trephine during surgery.

trephine

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (medicine) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trepan.

    • Synonyms

    * trepan (obsolete)

    Verb

  • To use a trephine during surgery.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) , Chapter 21
  • *:"We shall wait," said Van Helsing, "just long enough to fix the best spot for trephining , so that we may most quickly and perfectly remove the blood clot, for it is evident that the haemorrhage is increasing."

    • Anagrams

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    sindon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A wrapper.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Wrapped in sindons of linen.
  • (surgery, obsolete) A small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine.
    • (Dunglison)
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