craniotopography

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

cranio- +‎ topography

Noun[edit]

craniotopography (uncountable)

  1. (dated, rare) The layout of the cranium and the parts of the brain beneath it.
    • 1894, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record, volume 45, page 569:
      He held that great exactness in craniotopography is unnecessary, all that is needed being to make a sufficiently large opening.
    • 1901, A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences, page 457:
      For details of craniotopography, operative procedure and technique, and the special dangers incident to the operation for brain tumor, the reader is referred to the article […]
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