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Definition of Trepanned
1. trepan [v] - See also: trepan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trepanned
Literary usage of Trepanned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"And since the ruin of my relative, another lady of my acquaintance had like to
have been trepanned in the following manner: This lady had appointed to meet ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"... or the ingot is drawn out under the steam-hammer and trepanned; the latter
process l>eing specially adapted to the manufacture of the inner tube of a ..."
3. Prehistoric Problems, Being a Selection of Essays on the Evolution of Man by Robert Munro (1897)
"CHAPTER V. PREHISTORIC TREPANNING AND CRANIAL AMULETS.1 Preliminary—trepanned
... famous Memoir—trepanned Skulls and Amulets rapidly discovered throughout ..."
4. The Life and Services of General Lord Harris, G. C. B.: During His Campaigns by Stephen Rumbold Lushington (1840)
"... Marquis of Hastings)—trepanned, and ordered home for the recovery of his
health—Obtains a commission for his brother, and returns with him to America. ..."
5. Turkey and Its Destiny: The Result of Journeys Made in 1847 and 1848 to by Charles MacFarlane (1850)
"... Massacre of the Nestorian Christians — Mussulman Fanaticism — Population of
Brusa — Visit to the trepanned Emir Beshir, ..."
6. Journal of the Anthropological Institute of New-York by Anthropological Institute of New York (1871)
"... trepanned Inca Skull from Peru. The operation of trepanning is one of the most
ancient in surgery; it is mentioned by Hippocrates, who speaks of it as ..."
7. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"Not only were skulls of living men systematically trepanned among the men who
... A trepanned skull was extracted from a covered stone avenue at Borreby, ..."
8. Peru Illustrated: Or, Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the by Ephraim George Squier (1877)
"An ancient trepanned Skull.—Paucity of Sculptures in Peru.—The Alameda.—The
Panteon, or Cemetery. ..."
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