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
Pooh, nonsense," said the clergyman, "if a man has fractured his skull and you thought it fit to trepan him, would you ask him whether he liked it or not?
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various
With his philibeg an’ tartan plaid, An’ gude claymore down by his side, The ladies’ hearts he did trepan, My gallant braw John Highlandman.
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
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 Philip Thicknesse
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
Thousands of years ago, surgeons trepanned patients in early Europe and the South Pacific, and trepanation was still being practiced in East Africa as recently as the 1990s.
From National Geographic
This plaster cast of the skull measures 24 inches around the base and shows evidence of having been scarred by bullets and swords, and possibly trepanned.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You’re looking at the trepanned skulls?” he said.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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
Beside trepanning, the more radical surgeries included mastectomy, amputation, hernia reduction and cataract couching.
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
