单词 | trepan |
释义 | tre·pan 1 ![]() n. 1. A rock-boring tool used in mining for sinking shafts. 2. Medicine A trephine. tr.v. tre·panned, tre·pan·ning, tre·pans 1. To bore (a shaft) with a trepan. 2. To bore or otherwise make a hole in (the skull), as in certain prehistoric cultures or in surgery using a trephine. [Middle English trepane, surgical crown saw, from Medieval Latin trepanum, from Greek trūpanon, borer, from trūpān, to pierce, from trūpē, hole; see terə-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] trep′a·nation (trĕp′ə-nāshən) n. |
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