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Definition of Trepanning
1. trepan [v] - See also: trepan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trepanning
Literary usage of Trepanning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"... openings whereby tb* «pirite might escape, and trepanning was employed on
those wh/> «offered from ... Broca says: " The art of trepanning was applied ..."
2. Elements of Surgery: For the Use of Students by John Syng Dorsey (1818)
"THE OPERATION OF trepanning OR TREPHINING. The manner of removing portions of
the cranium, when this becomes necessary is next to be described. ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1909)
"The skulls of neolithic man sometimes bear unmistakable traces of trepanning
during life—an operation which must have been excruciating torture in times ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Francis Lieber, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1832)
"trepanning ; the operation of opening the skull, by means of a surgical instrument,
... The operation of trepanning is resorted to only for the purpose of ..."
5. Prehistoric Problems, Being a Selection of Essays on the Evolution of Man by Robert Munro (1897)
"CHAPTER V. PREHISTORIC trepanning AND CRANIAL AMULETS.1 ... rapidly discovered
throughout Central Europe—trepanning among various Primitive Races— Method of ..."
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