trepanation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The practice of drilling a hole in the skull as a physical, mental, or spiritual treatment. countable,uncountable
    — Creed had suffered […] a swelling to the brain that the tribe’s chief physic treated with trepanation.

词形变化

trepanations plural

词源

From New Latin trepanatio, formed from French trépan (“a drill”), itself from Latin trepanum, ultimately from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “an auger, a drill”).
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