trepan

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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

Summer meant putting out our eyes with BB guns and accidentally trepanning one another with lawn darts.

From Washington Post

Then there was trepanning, a process of drilling holes in the skull to dispel bad vapors in the brain.

From Washington Post

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

From The Guardian

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