Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Surgical incision into the skull.
- noun The cutting or breaking of the fetal skull to reduce its size for removal when normal delivery is not possible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In obstetrics, an operation in which the fetal head is opened when it presents an obstacle to delivery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery The surgical procedure for removing a part of the
skull , called a bone flap, prior to a treatment. The bone flap is replaced at the end of the operation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a surgical opening through the skull
Etymologies
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Examples
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Such an injury requires emergency surgery known as a craniotomy - where a hole is put in the skull, to let the blood out and so release cerebral pressure.
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The primary reason that doctors removed part of her skull on the left side of her head in the first place in a procedure known as a craniotomy was to ease the stress and pressure on her brain, as swelling was occurring and was expected to continue throughout the first part of her recovery.
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When I was told a hole had opened in the original craniotomy, and I had to have another brain surgery, my faith was not tested as much as my credulity.
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When I was told a hole had opened in the original craniotomy, and I had to have another brain surgery, my faith was not tested as much as my credulity.
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When I was told a hole had opened in the original craniotomy, and I had to have another brain surgery, my faith was not tested as much as my credulity.
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When I was told a hole had opened in the original craniotomy, and I had to have another brain surgery, my faith was not tested as much as my credulity.
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When I was told a hole had opened in the original craniotomy, and I had to have another brain surgery, my faith was not tested as much as my credulity.
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Uninsured patients were less likely to receive an operation on the nervous system, such as a craniotomy: 34 percent of the insured patients received such surgeries, compared with 25 percent of the uninsured.
Health Care, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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When I was told a hole had opened in the original craniotomy, and I had to have another brain surgery, my faith was not tested as much as my credulity.
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I'm coming up on the three-year anniversary of my craniotomy -- for brain tumor surgery -- and the milestone has made me think about the brain, how it works, how fragile it is and how digital technology has reshaped it.
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