trepan

Definition of Trepan in English :

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Noun

1. trepan, trephine

a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull

trephine

2. trepan

a drill for cutting circular holes around a center

Verb

3. trepan

cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Trepan

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noun

1. surgery

an instrument resembling a carpenter's brace and bit formerly used to remove circular sections of bone (esp from the skull)

Compare trephine

2.

a tool for cutting out circular blanks or for making grooves around a fixed centre

3.

a.

the operation of cutting a hole with such a tool

b.

the hole so produced

verb -pans, -panning or -panned (transitive)

4.

to cut (a hole or groove) with a trepan

5. surgery another word for trephine

verb -pans, -panning or -panned (transitive)

1.

to entice, ensnare, or entrap

2.

to swindle or cheat

noun

3.

a person or thing that traps

Trepan

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noun

1.

an early form of the trephine

2.

a heavy boring tool for sinking shafts, quarrying, etc.

verb transitiveWord forms: treˈpanned or treˈpanning

3.

trephine

4.

to cut a disk out of (a metal plate, ingot, etc.)

noun Archaic

1.

a person or thing that tricks, traps, or ensnares

2.

a trick; stratagem; trap

verb transitiveWord forms: treˈpanned or treˈpanning

3. Archaic

to trick, trap, or lure

Trepan

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n.

1. A rock-boring tool used in mining for sinking shafts.

2. Medicine A trephine.

tr.v. tre·panned, tre·pan·ning, tre·pans

1. To bore (a shaft) with a trepan.

2. To bore or otherwise make a hole in (the skull), as in certain prehistoric cultures or in surgery using a trephine.

tr.v. tre·panned, tre·pan·ning, tre·pans

To trap; ensnare.

n.

1. A trickster.

2. A trick or snare.

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