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
Trephine, tre-fēn′, or tre-fīn′, n. the modern trepan, having a little sharp borer called the centre-pin.—v.t. to perforate with the trephine.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Who'd have thought the needy profligate would have hesitated to plunge his trepan into the brain of a dying man—a corpse, you may say, already—for five hundred guineas?
From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
Then comes the larger trepan, with a width of 4.80 mètres, and repeats the process on a larger scale.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various
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
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
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
