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Meaning of creneotomia



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creneotomia is incorrectly written, and should be written as "craniotomy" being its meaning:
Word of the medical jargon of Greek origin, from kraniou kranion: skull and take take: cutting, amputation, incision, wound, a wound opening. It is the surgical opening of the skull. The procedure involves removal of a rounded piece of skull bone to act on the brain by removing a tumor, cyst, a clot or any other malformation or brain damage. At the end are reimplanted bone spread. Cure mainly depends on the underlying disease. These operations already they were known and made in antiquity, for example among the Egyptians. The ancients called it trepanation, from the Greek word trypanon trypanou: drill. Controlled drill of the skull was useful in situations of intracranial hypertension.

  










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