Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun trephine

1 sense of trephine

Sense 1
trepan, trephine -- (a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull)
       => surgical instrument -- (a medical instrument used in surgery)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb trephine

1 sense of trephine

Sense 1
trephine -- (operate on with a trephine)
       => operate on, operate -- (perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life")