craniotomy
Americannoun
noun
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any surgical incision into the skull, esp to expose the brain for neurosurgery
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the surgical crushing of a fetal skull to extract a dead fetus
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Tilly Phillips, now 16, was 15 when she underwent the conscious craniotomy procedure at Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
This technique requires arrays that cover relatively large areas, necessitating removal of at least an equal area of skull in a procedure known as a craniotomy.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 1, 2023
George Halvorson, the retired chief executive of Kaiser Permanente, says he recently had a surgical procedure on his skull, a craniotomy, at the renowned Mayo Clinic.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2023
Learning how to open up a craniotomy, learning how to put diapers on your newborn kids and be a better attentive husband, all these were tasks that I wanted to accomplish.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
Of late, however, the practice of craniotomy and all equivalent operations upon living subjects has gone almost entirely out of fashion among the better class of physicians.
From Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence by Coppens, Charles
Over the next two years, Andrew’s therapy included seven craniotomies, but by 2014 he had stabilized, Davies said, “and we kind of thought he was going to survive.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2021
Anthony Castrovince wrote that “he never truly escaped the effects of two craniotomies, chemotherapy and radiation.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2017
As for the surgery itself, craniotomies performed in a minimally invasive way—through a tiny incision around the eyelid or eyebrow—are generally well tolerated and heal quickly.
From Time ● Jul. 17, 2017
After three craniotomies and five years of foster care, he was adopted into a strict Pentecostal family, becoming the 10th of what would eventually be 37 Sheptock children.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2010
The baby lived, but has undergone eight craniotomies.
From Time Magazine Archive
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