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synonyms for trepan

On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to trepan, such as: auger, awl, bit, borer, corkscrew, and countersink.

How to use trepan in a sentence

The learned doctors held a consultation, and resolved to trepan the skull and extract the worm.
The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century | Leo Wiener
Figs. 141 to 146 are of the connections to the trepan and spears or rods.
Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells | Ernest Spon
If our Vulcans now-a-days were to trepan the heads of our Jupiters, they would find nothing in them!
The Further Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Under-Graduate | Cuthbert Bede

The sheep necessarily dies at last, unless we remove the parasite by means of the trepan.
Animal Parasites and Messmates | P. J. Van Beneden
The surgical trepan is a different word altogether, and belongs to Greco-Lat.
The Romance of Words (4th ed.) | Ernest Weekley

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