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TREPHINATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trephination mean?
• TREPHINATION (noun)
The noun TREPHINATION has 1 sense:
1. an operation that removes a circular section of bone from the skull
Familiarity information: TREPHINATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An operation that removes a circular section of bone from the skull
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("trephination" is a kind of...):
operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)
Derivation:
trephine (operate on with a trephine)
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