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

For Janet chose a cruel part,— How many win a tender heart And then trepan it!

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane

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

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