† trepanizev.
Obsolete. rare.
= trepan v.1
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > perform operation on specific part or condition [verb (transitive)] > operations on skull
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. xxvii. 545 Even their bones also use to be trepanized and bored through as well as ours.
a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) i. v. 49 Some have been cured by..tripanizing the scull, or drawing bones from it.
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