Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The operation of making, with a trepan, an opening in the skull for relieving the brain from compression or irritation.
- noun The method of making trepanned brushes (which see, under
trepan , verb).
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- verb Present participle of
trepan .
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Examples
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This occasioned his going through the operation called trepanning, which is performed by an engine like a coffee-mill, which being fixed on the bruised part of the bone, is turned round, and cuts out all the black till the edges appear white and sound.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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This occasioned his going through the operation called trepanning, which is performed by an engine like a coffee-mill, which being fixed on the bruised part of the bone, is turned round, and cuts out all the black till the edges appear white and sound.
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed Hayward, A L 1735
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Known as trepanning, it was an ancient procedure and a desperate one.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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Known as trepanning, it was an ancient procedure and a desperate one.
The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006
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I made the diagnosis that a splinter of bone was pressing upon the brain, and that the surgical operation known as trepanning was required.
Cabbages and Kings 1904
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I made the diagnosis that a splinter of bone was pressing upon the brain, and that the surgical operation known as trepanning was required.
Cabbages and Kings O. Henry 1886
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This is known as trepanning and was used up till the middle ages for headache treatment, now only used in a more advanced way to treat epidural and subdural hematomas or other intracranial disease.
unknown title 2009
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The trade of "trepanning" the unfortunates and transporting them and selling their term of service was not by several degrees as bad as the African slave-trade; but it was of the same sort, and the deadly horrors of its "middle passage" were hardly less.
A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868
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But I wasn't sure quite what to make of it as I glanced up at a recent episode of the Beeb's children's show, Horrible Histories, with the sound off, only to glimpse a cuddly, laughing puppet rat appear at the bottom of the screen to spell out the word "trepanning".
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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We can achieve that remarkable feat of thought transference without the pain, drilling, and bloodshed of trepanning.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
bilby commented on the word trepanning
"Thad had neither believed nor disbelieved this when reading it; it seemed as foreign to his own life as the worship of pagan idols or the practice of trepanning to relieve headaches. Now it seemed to have its own deadly logic."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King.
December 31, 2007