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CRANIOTOMY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does craniotomy mean?
• CRANIOTOMY (noun)
The noun CRANIOTOMY has 1 sense:
1. a surgical opening through the skull
Familiarity information: CRANIOTOMY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A surgical opening through the skull
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("craniotomy" is a kind of...):
operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)
Context examples
A craniotomy may be done so doctors can remove a brain tumor or abnormal brain tissue.
(Craniotomy, NCI Dictionary)
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