cranioclast
English
Etymology
cranio- + -clast
Noun
cranioclast (plural cranioclasts)
- (medicine) An instrument for crushing the head of a foetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult cases.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cranioclast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)