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Trepan  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. trepanned; pres. part. trepanning)  (Surg.) To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.






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"Trepan" Quotes from Famous Books



... he in company with the citizens, had more thoroughly made out how they were inclined; and though at first they had been on their guard, suspecting his bold language, as though he had been set on by the tyrant to trepan them, yet at length they trusted him. There was but one mind and one wish or prayer among them all, that Dion would undertake the design, and come, though without either navy, men, horse, or arms; that he would simply put ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough



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



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