What does trepan mean?

Definitions for trepan
trɪˈpæntrepan

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. trepan, trephinenoun

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

  2. trepanverb

    a drill for cutting circular holes around a center

  3. trepanverb

    cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Trepannoun

    Etymology: trepan, Fr.

    But what a thoughtless animal is man,
    How very active in his own trepan. Wentworth Dillon.

    Can there be any thing of friendship in snares, hooks, and trepans. Robert South, Sermons.

    During the commotion of the blood and spirits, in which passion consists, whatsoever is offered to the imagination in favour of it, tends only to deceive the reason: it is indeed a real trepan upon it, feeding it with colours and appearances instead of arguments. Robert South, Sermons.

  2. To Trepanverb

    Etymology: from the noun; trepaner, Fr.

    A putrid matter flowed forth her nostrils, of the same smell with that in trepanning the bone. Richard Wiseman, Surgery.

    Few recovered of those that were trepanned. Arbuthnot.

    They trepann’d the state, and fac’d it down
    With plots and projects of our own. Hudibras, p. iii.

    Those are but trepanned who are called to govern, being invested with authority but bereaved of power, which is nothing else but to mock and betray them into a splendid and magisterial way of being ridiculous. Robert South, Sermons.

ChatGPT

  1. trepan

    Trepan is a surgical instrument with a cylindrical blade, typically used for cutting out a disk of bone from the skull during procedures like trepanation. It can also refer to the action or practice of using such an instrument or treating a condition by trepanation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Trepannoun

    a crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine

  2. Trepannoun

    a kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts

  3. Trepan

    to perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan

  4. Trepannoun

    a snare; a trapan

  5. Trepannoun

    a deceiver; a cheat

  6. Trepanverb

    to insnare; to trap; to trapan

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Trepan

    trē-pan′, v.t. to ensnare:—pr.p. trepan′ning: pa.t. and pa.p. trepanned′. [Same as trapan, of which it is an erroneous spelling.]

  2. Trepan

    trē-pan′, n. (surg.) a small cylindrical saw used in perforating the skull: a powerful rock-boring tool.—v.t. to remove a circular piece of the skull with a trepan, in order to relieve the brain from pressure or irritation.—ns. Trepanā′tion, Trepan′ning; Trepan′ner. [Fr.,—Low L. trepanum—Gr. trypănontrypan, to bore.]

Anagrams for trepan »

  1. entrap

  2. panter

  3. pretan

  4. parent

  5. enrapt

  6. arpent

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of trepan in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of trepan in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2


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