trephination

Evidence of trephination has been seen through the analysis of excavated skulls.

Some anthropologists speculate that trephination was used as a treatment to get rid of possessing spirits.

If transfer to a facility with neurosurgery is prolonged trephination may be performed in the emergency department.

The procedure of drilling a hole through a fingernail or toenail is also known as trephination.

I learned a new word today: "trephination"-drilling a hole in the skull to relieve pressure on the brain.

Tone down the voodoo trip, the anarchy trip, the trephination trip.

The procedure was considered an advance over the other available filtering operations such as trephination, sclerectomy and iridencleisis,.

The presence of trephination in pre-history cultures suggests that early humans may have viewed the mind and body as interrelated in some fashion.

Trephination was a primitive skull surgery used by the Nazca that relieved pressure on the brain from battle wounds or for ritual purposes.

"Surgery" opens with a chapter on primitive surgery and lists the earliest example as trephination, boring open the skull - "and the patient survived."

ABOVE Trephination - the removal of part of the skull - has been used for thousands of years across the world.

There was a computer graphic showing which of her three tumors they had biopsied and the location of the trephination, of the skull just above the right ear.

He had recently had a hair transplant (or else enjoyed recreational trephination), and his scalp looked like a hard-used country lane over which a few scraggly saplings had fallen at random.

Surgical Neurology International (SNI) Violence, mental illness, and the brain - A brief history of psychosurgery: Part 1 - From trephination to lobotomy.

His Anathomia provides pictures of neuroanatomical structures and techniques such as the dissection of the head by means of trephination, and depictions of the meninges, cerebrum, and spinal cord.

It offers, among other things, vivid woodcuts of hapless, strapped-down, wide-awake patients undergoing trephination, a delightful procedure in which a hole was bored into the skull to relieve pressure on a swollen brain.

Hated the Whale," May 20] a parodic masterpiece, but it's not every day that one finds gorgeous bits of vocabulary like "benthic," "trephination" and "feculent" in The New York Times.

Folk healers ( khakim ) achieved considerable success in the treatment of wounds, bruises, broken bones, and dislocations and even in trephination; they were also skilled in phytotherapy and treatment of various internal diseases.

Trepanning, also known as trephination, trephining or making a burr hole, is a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull, exposing the dura mater to treat health problems related to intracranial diseases.