Trepan

From the distracted and despairing man whom love and longing trepan from the lover under passion’s ban the prisoner of transport and distraction from this Kamar al-Zaman son of Shahriman to the peerless one of the fair Houris the pearl-union to the Lady Budur daughter of King Al Ghayur ❋ Unknown (2006)

The "bizarre bits" on display here include a bunch of medical specimens and instruments, such as the smallpox scab, various saws used for amputations and neurosurgery, and a trepan, a grotesque device used to perforate the skull, which was believed to aid in treating mental illness, epilepsy and migraines. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Relatively humane compared to the older method of using a hammer that would trepan the animal. ❋ Unknown (2006)

When a bone is broken, or cleft, or contused, or otherwise injured, and when by mistake it has not been discovered, and neither the raspatory nor trepan has been applied as required, but the case has been neglected as if the bone were sound, fever will generally come on if in winter, and in summer the fever usually seizes after seven days. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And many of these require trepanning, but you must not apply the trepan to the sutures themselves, but on the adjoining bone. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And if you wish to saw at once down to the membrane, and then remove the bone, you must also, in like manner, frequently take out the trepan and dip it in cold water. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For the trepan being heated by running round, and heating and drying the bone, burns it and makes a larger piece of bone around the sawing to drop off, than would otherwise do. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And in trepanning you must frequently remove the trepan, on account of the heat in the bone, and plunge it in cold water. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But you must take care where you apply the trepan, and see that you do so only where it appears to be particularly thick, and having fixed the instrument there, that you frequently make examinations and endeavor by moving the bone to bring it up. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In their despair they hope to pull off a similar stunt as Hezbollah in 2006: draw the Turkish army into the Kandil Mountains, inflict an at least propagandistically exploitable defeat on them, trepan them into brutal excesses that will rally Kurdish-national and international support for them, and, ideally, internationalize the conflict by leaving the Kurdish Regional Government with no choice but to ally with them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But if you have not charge of the treatment from the first, but undertake it from another after a time, you must saw the bone at once down to the meninx with a serrated trepan, and in doing so must frequently take out the trepan and examine with a sound (specillum), and otherwise along the tract of the instrument. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And you must not trepan any of them, nor run any risks in attempting to extract the pieces of bone, until they rise up of their own accord, upon the subsidence of the swelling. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I think this writer meant to say 'trepan‚ because that's a drill, while a terrapin is an- ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

We had coated every wall of a room in plastic sheeting, had a placement tray ready a sterilized tray to set the instruments on, had the drill sterilized and ready to go, autoclaved bits set out, etc and proceeded to trepan me. ❋ Unknown (2006)

James Mhor Drummond was secretly applied to to trepan Stewart to the sea-coast, and bring him over to Britain, to almost certain death. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And I hae as little doubt that the poor deevil Morris, whom he could gar believe onything, was egged on by him, and some of the Lowland gentry, to trepan me in the gate he tried to do. ❋ Unknown (2005)

“Who disturb the peace of families — who trepan, with wanton arts, the heirs of noble houses — who — hah! what do such deserve?” ❋ Unknown (2004)

In Kenya, the Keesis (ph) still trepan fellow tribesmen in a ritualistic ceremony, and even in the U.S., according to the 1998 documentary "A Hole in the Head." ❋ Unknown (2004)

Syracuse, Speusippus, being oftener than he in company with the citizens, had more thoroughly made out how they were inclined; and though at first they had been on their guard, suspecting his bold language, as though he had been set on by the tyrant to trepan them, yet at length they trusted him. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

This [TREPANATION] [in my head] has provided me with new [insight]...everyone should have one ❋ Captain Jen (2003)

[serach] for trepan on [google] or [ww].bmezine.com ❋ Man Cabbage (2003)

"[Bulletproof] was trepanned by TheBurntOne's MK23" ❋ Dtrax (2005)