trepan

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Hippocrates gave directions as to the indications for using the trepan, and warned the operator against mistaking sutures of the cranial bones for fracture He did not describe amputations as generally understood, but removed limbs at a joint for gangrene.

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  1. noun A rock-boring tool used in mining for sinking shafts.
  2. noun Medicine A trephine.
  3. transitive verb To bore (a shaft) with a trepan.
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  • Just then Adam remembered reading about the ancient Zapotecs who would trepan captured warriors, similar to what Sylar must've done with all of his other victims. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • BzFlag exporter added to Wings. [contributed by trepan and optic delusion with minor changes by optigon] —  20 Newest Free Software Downloads - Freeware Files.com
  • Hippocrates gave directions as to the indications for using the trepan, and warned the operator against mistaking sutures of the cranial bones for fracture He did not describe amputations as generally understood, but removed limbs at a joint for gangrene. —  Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
  • You can ask Irons, who dresses them when I'm out of the way I'd rather ask you, Sir,' replied Dangerfield, in turn a little high Well, you can't apply the trepan, the surface is too extended, and all unsound, and won't bear it--'twould be simply killing him on the spot--don't you see? —  The House by the Church-Yard
  • Now, the trepan is the only way to effect it; and I'll be frank with you: Doctor Pell has been with him half a dozen times, and he says the operation would be instantaneously fatal. —  The House by the Church-Yard
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  1. Middle English trepane, surgical crown saw, from Medieval Latin trepanum, from Greek trūpanon, borer, from trūpān, to pierce, from trūpē, hole; see terə-1 in Indo-European roots.
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  1. Formerly trepane; from Old French trepane, French trépan =Spanish trépano =Portuguese trepano =Italian trepano, trapano, from Middle Latin trepanum, properly *trypanum, from Greek τρύπανον, a borer, an auger, a surgeons' trepan, from τρυπᾶν, bore, from τρῦπα, τρύπη, hole, from τρέπειν, turn.
  2. Formerly also trepane; from Old French trepaner, French trépaner, trepan; from the noun.
 

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