TREPHINATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An operation that removes a circular section of bone from the skull

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("trephination" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Derivation:

trephine (operate on with a trephine)

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