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craniotomy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Craniotomy \Cra`ni*ot"o*my\ (kr?`n?-?t"?-m?), n. [Cranium + Gr. ???? to cut off.] (Med.) The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1817, from cranio- + -tomy.
Wiktionary
n. (context surgery English) The surgical procedure for removing a part of the skull, called a bone flap, prior to a treatment. The bone flap is replaced at the end of the operation.
WordNet
n. a surgical opening through the skull
Wikipedia
A craniotomy is a surgical operation in which a bone flap is temporarily removed from the skull to access the brain. Craniotomies are often critical operations, performed on patients who are suffering from brain lesions or traumatic brain injury (TBI), and can also allow doctors to surgically implant deep brain stimulators for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and cerebellar tremor.
The procedure is also widely used in neuroscience for extracellular recording, brain imaging, and for neurological manipulations such as electrical stimulation and chemical titration. The procedures are used for accessing brain tissue that must be removed, as well.
Craniotomy is distinguished from craniectomy (in which the skull flap is not immediately replaced, allowing the brain to swell, thus reducing intracranial pressure) and from trepanation, the creation of a burr hole through the cranium in to the dura mater.
Usage examples of "craniotomy".
Of late, however, the practice of craniotomy and all equivalent operations upon living subjects has gone almost entirely out of fashion among the better class of physicians.
I look back upon with pleasure in my professional career, that which gives me the greatest satisfaction is that I have never done a craniotomy on a living child.
I explained to you the principles condemnatory of craniotomy and abortion, viewing these chiefly from the standpoint of the ethical philosopher and the jurist.
Louis Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, a lecture on the moral aspects of craniotomy and abortion, of which a considerable portion is very much to our present purpose.
So, we see, the principal points of the opinion enunciated by the learned judge, and the principles therein laid down, can, with equal force, be applied to the non-justification of craniotomy, by which the life of a defenceless child is sacrificed to save the mother.
The legitimate aspiration and tendency of science is to eliminate craniotomy on the living and viable child from obstetric practice.
I shall furnish the latest arrived at in the two operations of craniotomy and Cesarean section.
Galloway, in his defence of craniotomy, to which I referred in a former lecture.
September 4, 1895, concluded a long discussion on craniotomy published in that learned periodical.
The natural law requires the Doctor to respect the life of the unborn child, thus forbidding craniotomy and abortion.
Warren Emerson had already been transferred to Eastern Maine Medical Center for his craniotomy, and would remain hospitalized for at least week.
She brushed her fingers across her feathery new hair and along the still-sensitive margins of her craniotomy scar.
At craniotomy there was found, not a meningioma as had been hoped, but a huge carcinoma involving the orbitofrontal aspects of both frontal lobes.
Warren Emerson had already been transferred to Eastern Maine Medical Center for his craniotomy, and would remain hospitalized for at least a week.
Green, at Dacca, performed craniotomy upon the fetus of a girl of twelve.