borer vs trephine

borer

noun
  • A tool used for drilling. 

  • A person who bores or drills; a person employed to drill bore holes. 

  • A cyclostome, such as a hagfish, which bores into injured, dead, or decaying sea creatures to feed on their flesh. 

  • One of the many types of mollusc that bore into soft rock. 

  • A knife fit for a stabbing. 

  • A tedious person; a person who bores others; a bore. 

  • An insect or insect larva that bores into wood. 

trephine

noun
  • A surgical instrument with a cylindrical blade used to remove a circular section of tissue, f.e. bone or cornea; a trepan. 

verb
  • To use a trephine during surgery. 

  • To perforate with a trephine. 

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