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trepanations

trepanations is the plural of trepanation.

Meaning of trepanation

Noun

trepanation (countable and uncountable, plural trepanations)

  1. The practice of drilling a hole in the skull as a physical, mental, or spiritual treatment.
    • Creed had suffered […] a swelling to the brain that the tribe’s chief physic treated with trepanation.2022, Paul McAuley, Beyond the Burn Line, Gollancz, page 75

Questions about trepanations

What is trepanations the plural of?
Trepanations is the plural of trepanation.

Words near trepanations in the dictionary

  1. Treowen
  2. trepak
  3. trepaks
  4. trepan
  5. trepanation
  6. trepanations
  7. trepaned
  8. trepang
  9. trepanger
  10. trepangers
  11. trepanging

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