trepanation
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Iron Age skull with hole produced by trepanation.
See also: trépanation
English
Etymology
From New Latin trepanatio, formed from French trépan (“a drill”), itself from Latin trepanum, ultimately from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “an auger, a drill”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹɛpəˈneɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
trepanation (countable and uncountable, plural trepanations)
- The practice of drilling a hole in the skull as a physical, mental, or spiritual treatment.
- 2022, Paul McAuley, Beyond the Burn Line, Gollancz, page 75:
- Creed had suffered […] a swelling to the brain that the tribe’s chief physic treated with trepanation.
- 2024 December 10, Tom Phillips, Tiago Rogero, “Brazilian president in intensive care after emergency brain surgery”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- According to the doctors, Lula, 79, underwent a trepanation: having a 3cm hole made in the skull to insert a drain to remove the bleeding.
Synonyms
- (drilling a hole in the skull): trepanning, trephination, trephining
Translations
practice of drilling a hole in the skull
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See also
Further reading
trepanation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
