craniotopography

noun

The layout of the cranium and the parts of the brain beneath it.

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Meanings

nouncraniotopography (uncountable)
  1. datedrareuncountableThe layout of the cranium and the parts of the brain beneath it.

    He held that great exactness in craniotopography is unnecessary, all that is needed being to make a sufficiently large opening.

    1894, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record, volume 45, page 569
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    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 […]

    1901, A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences, page 457

Origin

From cranio- + topography.

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