cephalotripsy
English
editEtymology
editFrom cephalo- + τρῖψις (trîpsis, “rubbing”) + -y.
Noun
editcephalotripsy (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
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “cephalotripsy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.