cephalotripsy

English

Noun

cephalotripsy (countable and uncountable, plural cephalotripsies)

  1. (medicine) The act or operation of crushing the head of a foetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cephalotripsy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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