Thesaurus: trepan

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1. n. A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
2. n. A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
3. v. t. & i. 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. n. A snare; a trapan.
5. n. a deceiver; a cheat.
6. v. t. To insnare; to trap; to trapan.
7. n. a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull
8. n. a drill for cutting circular holes around a center
9. v. cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery
10. 1. (Surg.) A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine. 2. (Mining) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts. 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. 1. A snare; a trapan. Snares and trepans that common life lays in its way. South. 2. a deceiver; a cheat. He had been from the beginning a spy and a trepan. Macaulay. To insnare; to trap; to trapan. Guards even of a dozen men were silently trepanned from their stations. De Quincey.
11. A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull,turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
12. n. a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull n. a drill for cutting circular holes around a center v. cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery