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trepan

/trih-pan/US // trɪˈpæn //UK // (trɪˈpæn) //

剉稾,剉冰,剉剉乐,剉冰场

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a tool for cutting shallow holes by removing a core.
    • : Surgery. an obsolete form of the trephine resembling a carpenter's bit and brace.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    tre·panned, tre·pan·ning.

    • : Machinery. to cut circular disks from using a rotating cutter.
    • : Surgery. to operate upon with a trepan; trephine.

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Examples

  • The learned doctors held a consultation, and resolved to trepan the skull and extract the worm.

  • Figs. 141 to 146 are of the connections to the trepan and spears or rods.

  • If our Vulcans now-a-days were to trepan the heads of our Jupiters, they would find nothing in them!

  • The sheep necessarily dies at last, unless we remove the parasite by means of the trepan.

  • The surgical trepan is a different word altogether, and belongs to Greco-Lat.

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