What's the difference between sindon and trephine?
Sindon
Definition:
(n.) A wrapper.
(n.) A small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine.
Example Sentences:
Trephine
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for trepanning, being an improvement on the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin.
(v. t.) To perforate with a trephine; to trepan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Specimens from the bone marrow taken were by trephine biopsy from the sternum, ala ossis ilii and spine.
(2) The routine study of bone marrow trephine biopsies involves fixation, decalcification, paraffin-embedment, sectioning and staining.
(3) This correction improved the S-phase cell estimate from aspirated marrows, and the corrected values were not significantly different from values from paired trephine samples.
(4) Forty-five percutaneous trephine lung biopsies using the Steel apparatus were performed on 38 patients.
(5) A retrospective study was performed to evaluate the effect of recipient-donor trephine disparity on refractive error and corneal curvature post-suture removal in keratoconus.
(6) This instrument, a modification of a corneal trephine, provides a neat, smooth groove of adjustable depth.
(7) Trephination dates from prehistoric neolithic times (10,000-7000 B.C.)
(8) Forty-six patients were examined in a prospective, randomized clinical study to compare the use of the same size trephine on both donor and recipient with the use of a 0.5-mm larger trephine on the donor in aphakic keratoplasty and in keratoplasty combined with lens extraction.
(9) All patients had a trephine biopsy of the bone marrow and entered this study without prior selection.
(10) Meticulous handling of the graft (using a Goeller trephine and Tenon's traction sutures), filleting Tenon's capsule and avoiding cautery of the graft bed may minimize graft necrosis and atrophy.
(11) With the use of a guide box of plexiglas screwed into a trephine of the calvarium, several thermocouples could be inserted at various depths into the brain at the same time.2.
(12) In the control contralateral trephines, one-third to one-half of the defect was incompletely repaired.
(13) In a series of 20 human autopsy and 40 pig cadaver eyes the histological and ultrastructural results of donor and recipient trephination and full-thickness corneal grafting using new mask systems were evaluated.
(14) The use of a small trephine for chalazion surgery or tarsal biopsy is described.
(15) In this laboratory study, we used five different corneal trephines on 60 fresh human donor eyes with controlled intraocular pressure to study the variation in the size and shape of the trephine openings.
(16) One horizontal hole from the peripheral vasculature to one of the artificial longitudinal injuries to both medial menisci of the knee in each dog was made with a needlelike trephine.
(17) Three types of Berger's early investigations are described: (1) String-galvanometer recordings obtained between 1924 and 1926, mainly from trephined patients with cerebral diseases, which usually showed brain waves slowed to 6--8 per second; (2) Direct recordings from the cortex and white matter proving the cortical origin of the EEG in 1930; (3) Typical unpublished EEG recordings of epileptics and of petit-mal attacks obtained in 1930 and 1931.
(18) No complications of infection, osteomyelitis, or major nail deformities occurred in any patients treated by nail trephination, regardless of SUH size or presence of fracture.
(19) Tumour infiltration was also suggested in four of 10 staging procedures with suspicious trephine specimens, but in none of three with relatively innocent histological and cytological features.
(20) Seventy-two adult Sprague-Dawley rats each received bilateral 8-mm trephine defects in the temporoparietal area; this defect size precludes spontaneous osseous healing during the lifetime of the animal.