trepan

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Marshal Ney had a silver trepan in his skull, a bullet wound in his ankle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fearful things: bonesaws, abdomen retractor, trocar and trepan.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

For Janet chose a cruel part,— How many win a tender heart And then trepan it!

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane

Pooh, nonsense," said the clergyman, "if a man has fractured his skull and you thought it fit to trepan him, would you ask him whether he liked it or not?

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

"I don't know what they would say in some of the swagger hospitals, if they were asked to trepan a man's skull under these conditions," he said as the operation was finished.

From The Rider of Waroona by Scott, G. Firth