enthlasis

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English

Noun

enthlasis (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, rare) A depressed fracture of the skull.
    • 2016 June 11, S. M. Slepchenko, “Ante Mortem Cranial Trepanation in the Late Bronze Age in Western Siberia”, in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology:
      Instead, enthlasis, either open or closed, may have been the reason for this trepanation.