The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cephalotome
Cephalotome \Ceph"a*lo*tome\, n. [Cephalo- + Gr. ? to cut.] (Med.) An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery.
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cephalotome
n. (context surgery English) An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery.
Usage examples of "cephalotome".
It is the practical inattention to similar coincidences which has given rise to the unpleasant but often necessary documents called indictments, which has sharpened a form of the cephalotome sometimes employed in the case of adults, and adjusted that modification of the fillet which delivers the world of those who happen to be too much in the way while such striking coincidences are taking place.