craniotopography
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cranio- + topography.
Noun
[edit]craniotopography (uncountable)
- (dated, rare) The layout of the cranium and the parts of the brain beneath it.
- 1894, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record, volume 45, page 569:
- He held that great exactness in craniotopography is unnecessary, all that is needed being to make a sufficiently large opening.
- 1901, A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences, page 457:
- 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 […]