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- noun Plural form of
trephination .
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Examples
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Several of the skulls had been trephined, evidently while the person was still alive, some of the perforations in the brain-case being circular in shape, others quadrangular -- most of the trephinations having been made in the forehead, others on the top of the skull.
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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It was known that Stone Age doctors performed trephinations, cutting through the skull, but not amputations.
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