Craniotabes
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The medical finding of a softening or thinning of the skull. uncountable
"Dr. Elsässer applies the terms "soft occiput, or craniotabes," to the particular phase of this affection as he observed it, because it attacked the cranial bones, and especially the occipital bone, producing in these changes precisely analogous to those which rickets occasions in other parts of the skeleton."
Example
More examples"Dr. Elsässer applies the terms "soft occiput, or craniotabes," to the particular phase of this affection as he observed it, because it attacked the cranial bones, and especially the occipital bone, producing in these changes precisely analogous to those which rickets occasions in other parts of the skeleton."
Etymology
From cranio- + tabes.
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