cephalotripsy
English
Noun
cephalotripsy (countable and uncountable, plural cephalotripsies)
- (medicine) The act or operation of crushing the head of a dead foetus in the womb in order to ease its extraction from the womb.
- Synonym: cranioclasm
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References
- “cephalotripsy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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