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 surgical trepan is a different word altogether, and belongs to Greco-Lat. trypanon, an auger, piercer.

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

And weasels at their slumbers They'll trepan; To get sunbeams from cuCUMbers They've a plan.

From Songs of a Savoyard by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

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 Nuttall, P. Austin