Etymograph

English

trephination

From trephine + -ation.

A compound of trephine + -ation

Ancient Greek τρύπανον ‘auger, borer’

Latin trepanum

French tréphine

English trephine

Today it means

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

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