cephalotomy

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English

Etymology

From cephalo- +‎ -tomy.

Noun

cephalotomy (usually uncountable, plural cephalotomies)

  1. dissection or opening of the head
  2. (medicine) craniotomy; usually applied to bisection of the fetal head with a saw

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cephalotomy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)