Associations to the word «Trephination»

Wiktionary

TREPHINATION, noun. The surgical procedure in which a hole is drilled in the skull and a circular piece of bone removed

Dictionary definition

TREPHINATION, noun. An operation that removes a circular section of bone from the skull.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne