craniotopography
English
Etymology
cranio- + topography
Noun
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 […]
- 1894, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record (volume 45, page 569)