Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Puncture of the skull to give exit to accumulated fluid.
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Part of the "plan" was for the docs to "offer" me a Caesarian which I would then "refuse" so that in order to "save my life" they would do a procedure called a cephalocentesis.
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