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

"But what a thoughtless animal is man,— How very active in his own trepan!"

From The Human Side of Animals by Dixon, Royal

To-day a hell-dog is yesterday’s man,    And he has no plan,    But others to trepan    To Hell’s dismal revels.

From The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by Borrow, George Henry

Then comes the larger trepan, with a width of 4.80 mètres, and repeats the process on a larger scale.

From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various