Definition of "trephined" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of trephine. (verb)

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• "The patient was trephined by the surgeons of the German ambulance at Jacobsdal."
• "Suppose he had never been trephined, when would his intelligence have returned?"
• "Fifteen months afterwards he was trephined at Greenwich Hospital, having been insensible all that time."