trepanation

See also: trépanation

English

WOTD – 24 November 2011

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/

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• Hyphenation: trep‧a‧na‧tion

Noun

trepanation (countable and uncountable, plural trepanations)

1. 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

Arabic: نَقَب الجَمْجَمَة (naqab al-jamjama) Armenian: ոսկրաշաղափում (oskrašaġapʻum), գանգահատություն (hy) (gangahatutʻyun) Asturian: trepanación f Azerbaijani: trepanasiya Bashkir: трепанация (trepanatsiya) Basque: trepanazio Belarusian: трэпанацыя (trepanacyja) Bulgarian: трепанация (trepanacija) Catalan: trepanació f Chinese: Mandarin: 頭部穿孔 / 头部穿孔 (tóu bù chuānkǒng) Czech: trepanace (cs) f Dutch: schedeltrepanatie (nl) f Esperanto: trepanado Estonian: trepanatsioon (et) Finnish: kallonporaus (fi), trepanaatio (fi) French: trépanation (fr) f Galician: trepanación (gl) f Georgian: ტრეპანაცია (ṭreṗanacia) German: Trepanation (de) f Greek: τρυπανισμός (el) m (trypanismós) Hungarian: lékelés (hu) Irish: treapánadh f Italian: trapanazione f Japanese: 穿頭 (せんとう, sentō) Kazakh: трепанация (trepanasiä) Korean: 천두 (cheondu) Kyrgyz: трепанация (trepanatsiya) Latvian: trepanācija f Lithuanian: trepanacija f Macedonian: трепанација f (trepanacija) Polish: trepanacja f Portuguese: trepanação (pt) f Romanian: trepanație (ro) f Russian: трепана́ция (ru) f (trepanácija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: трепана́ција f Roman: trepanácija (sh) f Slovak: trepanácia f Spanish: trepanación (es) f Tajik: трепанация (trepanaciya) Tatar: трепанация (trepanatsiyä) Turkish: trepanasyon Turkmen: trepanasiýa Ukrainian: трепана́ція f (trepanácija) Uzbek: trepanatsiya (uz) Yakut: трепанация (trepanatsiya)

See also

• burr hole
• craniotomy

Further reading

• trepanation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• parentation