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Definition of Trephination
1. Noun. An operation that removes a circular section of bone from the skull.
Derivative terms: Trephine
Definition of Trephination
1. Noun. the surgical procedure in which a hole is drilled in the skull and a circular piece of bone removed ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trephination
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Trephination
1. Removal of a circular piece ("button") of cranium by a trephine. Synonym: trepanation. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trephination
Literary usage of Trephination
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital by Bellevue Hospital Society of Alumni (1898)
"... OF THE CRANIAL VAULT ; LATE trephination. The patient, a man sixty years of age,
... trephination ..."
2. Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates: Proceedings of the First by Daniel T. Potts, Hasan Al Naboodah, Peter Hellyer (2003)
"trephination Three skulls showed defects resulting from trephination. ... In these
cases, trephination can be regarded as a treatment in which sections of ..."
3. Roentgen diagnosis of diseases of the head by Arthur Schueller (1918)
"On November 2(ith, 1907, a temporal palliative trephination was performed by ...
Palliative trephination undertaken in the clinic of von Eiselsberg had the ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"Apathetic on the third day; stupor later; operation; trephination in both frontal
regions disclosing ..."
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