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Cranial drill

A cranial drill, also known as a craniotome, is a tool for drilling simple burr holes (trepanation) or for creating larger openings in the skull. This exposes the brain and allows operations such as craniotomy and craniectomy to be done. The drill itself can be manually or electrically driven, and primarily consists of a handpiece and a drill bit, which…

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Trepanation in MesoamericaGreeceNorthSouth AmericaAfrica
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Surgery, craniotomy, craniectomy
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Hospitals, clinics, emergency medicine

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Cranial drill → Africa, Ancient Greece, Ancient Romans, Egyptians, Far East, Folly, France, Head, Hieronymus Bosch, In, Madness, Mesoamerica, North, On Wounds, Paintings, Pieter Huys, Polynesia, South America, Stone, Surgeon Extracting
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Cranial drill → essential instrument used by surgeons to drill into the skull bone, most used and predominant type of drill in surgery
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Cranial drill → Surgery, craniotomy, craniectomy
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drill skull cranial used surgery brain trepanning trepanation manually tool also pneumatic craniotomy use drilling instrument craniectomy hole surgeons operations

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Cranial drillActivity sectorsSurgery, craniotomy, craniectomy1.00infobox
Cranial drillFields of employmentHospitals, clinics, emergency medicine1.00infobox
Cranial drillis aessential instrument used by surgeons to drill into the skull bone0.90text
Cranial drillis amost used and predominant type of drill in surgery0.90text
craniotomyinstance ofThis exposes the brain and allows operations0.80text
craniectomy to be doneinstance ofThis exposes the brain and allows operations0.80text
the ease of use through high peak velocitiesinstance ofThe use of this kind of mechanism has many advantages0.80text
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Cranial drillrelated to ApplicationIn0.60section
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Cranial drillrelated to Cranial drillFrance0.60section

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