I made the diagnosis that a splinter of bone was pressing upon the brain, and that the surgical operation known as trepanning was required.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cabbages and Kings] Reference

Not doing it, but...maybe trepanning to reduce pressure inside?.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Twitter 03-27-2010] Reference

In fact, there's a whole trepanning subculture on the internet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: Trephination set on EBay] Reference

Isn't there evidence of trepanning from way back in the Neolithic?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early medieval surgical knowledge] Reference

This condition is often the consequence of even the most skilful trepanning.    From Wordnik.com.  [River God]

Current Music: trepanning trio- "lightning rod salesman"7 gunslingers | crown me king.    From Wordnik.com.  [mordicai: crown me king!] Reference

With regard to trepanning, when there is a necessity for it, the following particulars should be known.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Injuries Of The Head] Reference

Of all those persons who have undergone the operation of trepanning, a great proportion always remain imbecile.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

Ditto drilling offshore in Virginia and Alaska, logging ancient forests, trepanning whole mountains to get at the coal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Hendra: The Rapture Is Crapture (Part 1)] Reference

But if the fracture extend deep, and do not seem likely to disappear when scraped, such an accident requires trepanning.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Injuries Of The Head] Reference

And in trepanning you must frequently remove the trepan, on account of the heat in the bone, and plunge it in cold water.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Injuries Of The Head] Reference

And many of these require trepanning, but you must not apply the trepan to the sutures themselves, but on the adjoining bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Injuries Of The Head] Reference

The Romans also favoured trepanning, a primitive form of neurosurgery involving drilling a hole in the patients skull to let out the bad spirits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bedlam] Reference

Operativen Heilung der Epilepsie (On some conditions for the operative cure of epilepsy), and papers on injuries and concussion of the brain and trepanning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theodor Kocher - Biography] Reference

France was performing the operation of trepanning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting For Peace] Reference

The 36th, I performed the operation of trepanning upon the former.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sporting Magazine] Reference

French physicians, who wished to perform the operation of trepanning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference

It is the first time that cases of trepanning have been found in Mexico.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan] Reference

In March, 1828, at Provins, he performed an operation of trepanning on Pierrette.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1] Reference

"They damned well need trepanning before you can get it there," said the solicitor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Mist]

Suppose his scull should prove to be broken; who was to stand the woes of trepanning?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sheppard Lee] Reference

They don't amputate the lobes -- supposed to be reliably identified -- after carefully trepanning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Là-bas] Reference

Of five unvaccinated dogs, all died after inoculation, by trepanning, of the brain with rabic matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference

He avoided Goodwin, and his skilful escape from the trepanning story of Dr. Gregg is still referred to, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cabbages and Kings] Reference

But, there was trepanning, where they cut holes in a person's skull to release vapors, and things like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News from SOA World Magazine] Reference

Twice Amanda stood for Parliament in Chelsea as an independent on a manifesto with a singular topic - trepanning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

It will require a surgical operation to get this into the heads of authorities here: nothing short of trepanning will do it. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mises Dailies] Reference

Even trepanning, the ancient practice of drilling a hole in the skull, is a line of modern inquiry as a treatment for Alzheimer's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade Futurist] Reference

When, after many hours, he recovered his senses, I believe after trepanning, his first words were to ask after his comrade, 'Is he alive?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Character] Reference

When people walk in and see your extensive collection of antique trepanning tools mounted in rococo frames, I guarantee, they'll say "wow!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference

It is known that the aborigines performed trepanning with skill, but this is probably the earliest appearance in an American legend of a wooden leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate] Reference

Nations it offered an unresisting body on which all the requisite operations from amputation to trepanning might be performed without the use of anesthetics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inside Story of the Peace Conference] Reference