TREPAN
\tɹˈɛpan], \tɹˈɛpan], \t_ɹ_ˈɛ_p_a_n]\
Definitions of TREPAN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A deceiver; a cheat.
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A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
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A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
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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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A snare; a trapan.
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To insnare; to trap; to trapan.
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A deceiver; a cheat.
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A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
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A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
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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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A snare; a trapan.
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To insnare; to trap; to trapan.
By Noah Webster.
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To insnare:-pr.p. trepanning; pa.t. and pa.p. trepanned.
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(surg.) A small cylindrical saw used in perforating the skull.
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To remove a circular piece of the skull with a trepan, in order to relieve the brain from pressure or irriation.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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