Usually means: Cutting hole in the skull.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word trephining:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. trephining: Merriam-Webster
  2. trephining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. trephining: Vocabulary.com
  4. trephining: Wordnik
  5. trephining: Wiktionary
  6. trephining: Dictionary.com
  7. Trephining: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Trephining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Trephining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. trephining: FreeDictionary.org
  11. trephining: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. trephining: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. trephining: Medical dictionary

(Note: See trephine as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (trephining)

▸ noun:  The use of a trephine.

Similar:
trepan, trephination, autotrepanation, abaptiston, cephalotribe, craterization, decussorium, trocharization, turbinotomy, trocharisation, more...

Opposite:
closing, sealing, suturing

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Similar:
trepan, trephination, autotrepanation, abaptiston, cephalotribe, craterization, decussorium, trocharization, turbinotomy, trocharisation, more...

Opposite:
closing, sealing, suturing



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