trephination

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How about trephination (drilling a hole in someone's head) as a solution to mental illness?

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  1. Same as trepanning. Fortunately the way in which barbaric and savage people think is coming to be understood; and the light thus given illumines fairly, though at some points faintly, the wonderful course of development of the art of trephination. An. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., 1894–95, p. 20.

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  • How about trephination (drilling a hole in someone's head) as a solution to mental illness? —  American Thinker
  • The surgeon recommended trephination of the skull to relieve the headaches. —  Gates of Vienna
  • Trepanation, or trephination (both derived from the Greek word trypanon, meaning "to bore") is perhaps the oldest form of neurosurgery. —  Clipmarks | Live Clips
  • Inefficiently supplementary egotistical phone for business angolan you can ubiety on your prebendary to devitalisation a bailee from dichromacy in and trephination your niff. —  Rational Review
  • Finally, a 0.5 - Using the "Big-Bubble Technique" in technique includes a 7. 5-mm trephination mm oversized donor lenticule is secured. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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