Word Meaning

Meaning of trepan

- A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
- A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
- To perforate (the skull) with a trepan, so as to remove a portion of the bone, and thus relieve the brain from pressure or irritation; to perform an operation with the trepan.
- A snare; a trapan.
- a deceiver; a cheat.
- To insnare; to trap; to trapan.

Crossword clue for trepan

- A boring tool
- Medical tool
- Shaftboring tool
- Surgical instrument for excising pieces Of the Skull