Synonyms for trepan

Grammar : Noun

Spell : trih-pan

Phonetic Transcription : trɪˈpæn

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Définition of trepan

Origin : c.1400, from French trépaner (14c.), from Medieval Latin trepanum "a saw for cutting out small pieces of bone from the skull," from Greek trypanon, from trypan "to bore," related to trype "hole" (cf. Old Church Slavonic truplu "hollow"), from PIE root *tere- "to rub, turn" (see throw). Related: Trepanned; trepanning.

As in drill : noun tool for boring

Example sentences :

Figs. 141 to 146 are of the connections to the trepan and spears or rods.
Extract from : « Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells » by Ernest Spon

But what a thoughtless animal is man,—How very active in his own trepan!
Extract from : « The Human Side of Animals » by Royal Dixon

The learned doctors held a consultation, and resolved to trepan the skull and extract the worm.
Extract from : « The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century » by Leo Wiener

Do all the Fractures of the Skull require the use of the Trepan?
Extract from : « The Compleat Surgeon, or the Whole Art of Surgery Explain'd in a Most Familiar Method » by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc

The trepan of M. Kind contains some peculiar details, which are shown in Figs. 97, 98.
Extract from : « Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells » by Ernest Spon

What is that deep Fracture, wherein the use of the Trepan is absolutely necessary?
Extract from : « The Compleat Surgeon, or the Whole Art of Surgery Explain'd in a Most Familiar Method » by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc

Must all these Signs appear before a Determination can be made of the necessity of using the Trepan?
Extract from : « The Compleat Surgeon, or the Whole Art of Surgery Explain'd in a Most Familiar Method » by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc

What is requisite to be done in a doubtful Occasion; Must the Trepan be apply'd or omitted?
Extract from : « The Compleat Surgeon, or the Whole Art of Surgery Explain'd in a Most Familiar Method » by Charles Gabriel Le Clerc

We ought therefore to try other means, and trepan the bone in several places, till whatever is rotten be taken away.
Extract from : « A dissertation on the inutility of the amputation of limbs » by Johann Ulrich Bilguer

But the point I refer to is this: the old instrument, the trepan, had a handle like a wimble, what we call a brace or bit-stock.
Extract from : « Medical Essays » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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