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

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 Thicknesse, Philip

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

I cannot think," he said, after a moment's pause, "that the fellow means to trepan us; and, in any event, I trust we should have no difficulty in forcing the door, or otherwise making escape.

From Peveril of the Peak by Scott, Walter, Sir