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Trepan   Listen
noun
Trepan  n.  
1.
(Surg.) A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
2.
(Mining) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.





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"Trepan" Quotes from Famous Books



... ooman he took up behine, Begummers, war a man! Tha rubbers zaw ad lAcd ther plots Our grazier to trepan. ...
— The Dialect of the West of England Particularly Somersetshire • James Jennings
... p. 349. Hence the application of blisters, or of ether, or of warm fomentations, should be on the side of the head opposite to that of the affected muscles. This subject should nevertheless be nicely determined, before any one should trepan for the hydrocephalus internus, when the disease is shewn to exist only on one side of the brain, by a squinting affecting but one eye; as proposed in Class I. 2. 5. 4. Dr. Sommering has shewn, that ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin


Words linked to "Trepan" :   surgical operation, bore, drill, operation, trephine, surgery, surgical process, surgical procedure


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