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

The large trepan or cutter weighs about 16 tons, and cuts a hole of from 9 to 15 ft. in diameter.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various

Fowling has given us cajole, decoy, and trepan.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

Now, the trepan is the only way to effect it; and I'll be frank with you: Doctor Pell has been with him half a dozen times, and he says the operation would be instantaneously fatal.

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