What's the difference between ensnare and trepan?

Ensnare


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To catch in a snare. See Insnare.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The deal would clarify trade rules that currently ensnare businesses large and small in red tape and arguably make trading in the Pacific rim far easier.
  • (2) Brazil’s corruption crackdown is welcome The arrest of former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva could mark the beginning of the end of a political and financial crisis that has ensnared politicians and plunged the economy into recession.
  • (3) This is in part due to sweeping US counter-terrorism laws that have, until recently, been ensnaring Syrians who pose no threat.
  • (4) The court orders cast a data net so wide as to ensnare virtually all digital communications originating from or sent to the three.
  • (5) EU competition law might ensnare the NHS and prevent any successor from undoing Lansley's market reforms – but it will not save his bacon.
  • (6) It’s sort of as you cross a chasm on a tightrope your muscles tense up.” Li Jiamei, the youngest of two children, had just started her summer holidays when she became ensnared in the unforgiving world of Chinese politics.
  • (7) These ensnared enemies can be brought into the game as controllable characters by reinserting the Trap element into the portal.
  • (8) No doubt Boehner’s successor, be it current House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy (the odds-on favorite), or a more intransigent Tea Party true believer like Mike Labrador, the Idaho legislator who went gunning for McCarthy’s job in the last leadership vote,  will become ensnared in the same impossible conundrum when a government shutdown looms over, I don’t know, the War on Christmas.
  • (9) Failure of retrieval occurred only in specially difficult circumstances; when a catheter embolized to the pulmonary artery of a Tetralogy of Fallot, and when in spite of successful ensnarement, a fractured electrode was firmly adherent to the right ventricular apex.
  • (10) Stephen K Amos Stephen K Amos: 'Last year it was the solo plays that ensnared me.'
  • (11) The nation is now ensnared in a sixth straight year of recession with unemployment at a European high of 27%.
  • (12) Amanda Kimbrough is one of the women who have been ensnared as a result of the law being applied in a wholly different way.
  • (13) "You developed and perfected a web of deceit that was sufficient to ensnare young, intelligent and sensible women who had enjoyed a night out and whose only mistake, as it turned out, was to get into your cab late at night."
  • (14) While he and his wife were there preparing for the move, the state of Kansas took five of their children, ages 5 to 16, into custody on suspicion of child endangerment, ensnaring his family in interstate marijuana politics.
  • (15) More visibly, the Camorra famously adopted – or ensnared – Diego Maradona (who played for Napoli in his heyday) as its mascot, and thereby victim, befriending the genius striker, moving in on his merchandise – and furnishing him with women and drugs.
  • (16) Other complications included a silent free perforation, a snare-wire entrapment, and an ensnared bowel wall.
  • (17) Judging by recent coverage, Japan is in the midst of a marijuana epidemic that is ensnaring everyone from students to suburban housewives and sumo wrestlers.
  • (18) Davutoğlu also argued with Erdoğan over the pre-trial detention of journalists charged with insulting the president, an offence that has ensnared hundreds of people since 2014.
  • (19) This time they went to the body itself.” There are suspicions that the raid could lead to ECRF being ensnared in the ongoing crackdown on NGOs in Egypt , reviving an infamous case from 2011 which accuses it of receiving illegal foreign funds.
  • (20) "The way Paxman treated Chloe was bit like a giant cat playing with, and then ensnaring, a tiny mouse.

Trepan


Definition:

  • (n.) A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
  • (n.) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.
  • (v. t. & i.) 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.
  • (n.) A snare; a trapan.
  • (n.) a deceiver; a cheat.
  • (v. t.) To insnare; to trap; to trapan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
  • (2) Labyrinthine trepanation was performed in the majority of 16 patients with minor agenesis of middle ear involving either stapedovestibular ankylosis or absence of fenestra vestibuli.
  • (3) The introduction of a new motorized trepan in ophthalmic surgery by Arthur v. Hippel in 1891 was a very important achievement.
  • (4) Already Hippocrates recommended decompression-trepanation for the treatment of hydrocephalus.
  • (5) Borings with rose trepans without cooling fluid cause sometimes considerable heat lesions up to a depth of 30 mu.
  • (6) The method of choice for the treatment was the osteoplastic trepanation with a removal of the haematoma.
  • (7) A second similar observation was made in a 15 year old male, trepanated because of an epidural abscess.
  • (8) Surgical techniques were those of Mackensen (1972), the trap-door technique, and a trepanation of the sclerocornea with regrafting.
  • (9) Resection trepanation of the skull was carried out in 55 patients, osteoplastic in 23.
  • (10) It can be demonstrated that because of the stress on the femur and its mechanical characteristics (material distribution, density distribution, breaking strength, "structure" strength and the histological structure), a lateral trepanation of the femoral corticalis is weakening the bone in its mechanically most stressed part whereas an anterior fenestration is mechanically much better.
  • (11) Before trepanation they received infiltration anaesthesia of the scalp at the site of the proposed operation.
  • (12) The surgical removing of the apical part of the implant with the use of a Trepan bur made it possible to examine and visualize histologically and microradiographically the tissue adjacent to the implant.
  • (13) Due to these observations, Perier had suggested to treat deafness by trepanation.
  • (14) Investigations of the French physician Perier on patients after a trepanation of their skulls have shown that talking can be understood in the case of hermetically closed ears by means of the trepanation scar.
  • (15) Since skin problems as decubitus and infections are well known risks in osteoplastic trepanations in congenital malformations in children, we searched for a reduction in size of the implants and the possibility to use biodegradable materials.
  • (16) This case shows that the value of angiography for the diagnosis of brain death may sometimes be limited, at least in those cases in which osteoclastic trepanation has been performed or there are other causes for a skull defect, because they can prevent the rise of intracranial pressure which brings about the cerebral circulatory arrest.
  • (17) After osteoclastic trepanation 45 patients were investigated with ultrasonic tomography.
  • (18) This is effected by the ability to change the penetration angle of the electrode or by choosing a different point of trepanation.
  • (19) During trepanation a macroscopically typical finding of Sturge-Weber-syndrome could be demonstrated (angioma capillare et venosum) covering almost the entire right posterior hemisphere.
  • (20) Since the bone meal is usually obtained during trepanation, bone biopsies of other body regions are unnecessary.