trephination|trephinations in English

noun

(Medicine) using a trephine, using a small circular saw for cutting circular discs of bone

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1. Trephination.

2. Matias looks up trephination, and they all learn it means drilling a hole in a person's skull.

3. The second case, was that of a man 61 years old. The neurosurgeon, after performing bilateral trephination for an acute hydrocephalus had found, a cyst of the right tonsil of the cerebellum.

4. Life-threatening emergencies requiring immediate transfer are rare in the specialty of neurosurgery: patients with subdural hematoma or occlusive hydrocephalus should be promptly transferred, while trephination for acute epidural hematoma can if necessary also be performed by a surgeon on-site.

5. The selection of parameters of the corneal buttons for transplantation encompass not only the diameter and the shape and the angle of trephination (parallel, convergent to the optical axis), but also the overall configuration of the corneal graft.