Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The operation of craniotomy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) The crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery.
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- noun medicine The
crushing of a child's head, as with thecranioclast orcraniotomy forceps in cases of very difficultdelivery .
Etymologies
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cranio- + Ancient Greek κλάσμα (klasma, "fragment, morsel"), from κλάω (klao, "I break off")
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