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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

I. Ye gallants bright, I red ye right, Beware o’ bonnie Ann; Her comely face sae fu’ o’ grace, Your heart she will trepan.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

Trepanning, an operation in surgery whereby portions of the skull are removed by means of an instrument called a trepan, which consists of a small cylindrical saw; resorted to in all operations on the brain.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

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

From The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon

She fetches down a skull from her mantelpiece and shows me its several trepanned holes.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 10, 2019

But not all trepanned skulls show signs of head injuries, so it’s possible the surgery was also used to treat conditions that left no skeletal trace, such as chronic headaches or mental illnesses.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 8, 2018

Verano spoke with National Geographic about his views on the art and science of trepanning, based on decades of study and more than 800 trepanned skulls.

From National Geographic

He was trepanned and spent two years in convalescence.

From Time Magazine Archive

“You’re looking at the trepanned skulls?” he said.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

Beside trepanning, the more radical surgeries included mastectomy, amputation, hernia reduction and cataract couching.

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2023

Most unusual were a bone lever, for putting fractures back in place, and the handle of what appears to have been a drill, for trepanning the skull and extracting impacted weaponry from bone.

From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2023

Come for the trepanning, stay for Judy Davis’s performance as Ratched’s bitter rival, Nurse Bucket.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2020

Verano spoke with National Geographic about his views on the art and science of trepanning, based on decades of study and more than 800 trepanned skulls.

From National Geographic

This process, it said in spidery writing on a card, was called trepanning.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman