Trepan (Verb)
Meaning
Cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The surgeon carefully began to trepan the patient's skull to relieve the pressure on the brain.
- After making the initial incision, the doctor used a trepan to create a circular opening in the bone.
- To perform the procedure, the medical team would trepan the patient's skull and use a shunt to drain the excess fluid.
- The ancient civilizations used various instruments to trepan the skulls, possibly for spiritual or medicinal purposes.
- The patient underwent an emergency operation where doctors had to trepan the skull to evacuate a growing subdural hematoma.