enthlasis

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noun

A depressed fracture of the skull.

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Meanings

nounenthlasis (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountablemedicineA depressed fracture of the skull.

    Instead, enthlasis, either open or closed, may have been the reason for this trepanation.

    2016 June 11, S. M. Slepchenko, “Ante Mortem Cranial Trepanation in the Late Bronze Age in Western Siberia”, in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
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