trepan
IPA: trˈɛpʌn
noun
- A tool used to bore through rock when sinking shafts.
- (medicine) A surgical instrument used to remove a circular section of bone from the skull; a trephine.
- (archaic) A trickster.
- (archaic) A snare; a trapan.
verb
- (transitive, manufacturing, mining) To create a large hole by making a narrow groove outlining the shape of the hole and then removing the plug of material remaining by less expensive means.
- (medicine) To use a trepan; to trephine.
- (archaic) To ensnare; to seduce, to trick.
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Examples of "trepan" in Sentences
- I drew the trepan out and the gurgling continued.
- I looked at the trepan and there was a bit of bone in it.
- The historical practice of trepanation was also a type of stoma.
- One woman had a denture, and there is also evidence for trepanations.
- Relatively humane compared to the older method of using a hammer that would trepan the animal.
- And many of these require trepanning, but you must not apply the trepan to the sutures themselves, but on the adjoining bone.
- And if you wish to saw at once down to the membrane, and then remove the bone, you must also, in like manner, frequently take out the trepan and dip it in cold water.
- For the trepan being heated by running round, and heating and drying the bone, burns it and makes a larger piece of bone around the sawing to drop off, than would otherwise do.
- And you must not trepan any of them, nor run any risks in attempting to extract the pieces of bone, until they rise up of their own accord, upon the subsidence of the swelling.
- But you must take care where you apply the trepan, and see that you do so only where it appears to be particularly thick, and having fixed the instrument there, that you frequently make examinations and endeavor by moving the bone to bring it up.
- From the distracted and despairing man whom love and longing trepan from the lover under passion’s ban the prisoner of transport and distraction from this Kamar al-Zaman son of Shahriman to the peerless one of the fair Houris the pearl-union to the Lady Budur daughter of King Al Ghayur
- The "bizarre bits" on display here include a bunch of medical specimens and instruments, such as the smallpox scab, various saws used for amputations and neurosurgery, and a trepan, a grotesque device used to perforate the skull, which was believed to aid in treating mental illness, epilepsy and migraines.
- But if you have not charge of the treatment from the first, but undertake it from another after a time, you must saw the bone at once down to the meninx with a serrated trepan, and in doing so must frequently take out the trepan and examine with a sound (specillum), and otherwise along the tract of the instrument.
- When a bone is broken, or cleft, or contused, or otherwise injured, and when by mistake it has not been discovered, and neither the raspatory nor trepan has been applied as required, but the case has been neglected as if the bone were sound, fever will generally come on if in winter, and in summer the fever usually seizes after seven days.
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