trepan

Example Sentences

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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

But, though Pell pronounced that he must die without recovering consciousness, and that the trepan would kill him instantaneously, I had a profound misgiving that he might recover speech and recollection.

From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

With his philibeg an' tartan plaid, kilt And gude claymore down by his side, two-handed sword The ladies' hearts he did trepan, My gallant braw John Highlandman.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan

They seldom trepan; a surgeon who attempted to perform it, would himself be perhaps in want of it.

From A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, 1777 Volume 1 by Thicknesse, Philip