Associations to the word «Craniotomy»

Wiktionary

CRANIOTOMY, noun. (surgery) 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.

Dictionary definition

CRANIOTOMY, noun. A surgical opening through the skull.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope