NOUN
- a drill for cutting circular holes around a center
- a surgical instrument used to remove sections of bone from the skull
VERB
- cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery
How To Use trepan In A Sentence
- From the distracted and despairing man whom love and longing trepan from the lover under passion’s ban the prisoner of transport and distraction from this Kamar al-Zaman son of Shahriman to the peerless one of the fair Houris the pearl-union to the Lady Budur daughter of King Al Ghayur The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- His name was Baderoon, and as he was unmarried and had been used to a roving life, having been several voyages to North Australia to catch trepang or “beche de mer”, I was in hopes of being able to keep him. The Malay Archipelago
- He was wounded by shrapnel in March 1916, trepanned, and died of Spanish flu in November 1918. The Times Literary Supplement
- Usque ad duram matrem trepanari feci, et per mensam aperte stetit. Anatomy of Melancholy
- In the opening volleys at the battle of Germantown on 4 October 1777, St George was shot in the head, taken from the field and trepanned, leaving him with a large hole in the side of his skull.
- Termed also trepang, sea cucumber, sea slug, cotton spinner, and known scientifically as Holothuridae, no less than twenty varieties have been described and are identified by popular and technical titles. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
- It would have gone the way of trepanning? Times, Sunday Times
- _ -- There are a few species of _Holothuriæ_, of which the trepang is the best known example. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
- The flesh of the trepang has to be drenched in water for a long time prior to cooking, in order to remove a lot of the gelatinous goo, or so I'm told.
- They shaved his head and trepanned him to let the pressure out.
