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cephalotripsy

cephalotripsy noun: the act or operation of crushing the head of a dead foetus in the womb in order to ease its extraction from the womb.

Noun

cephalotripsy (countable and uncountable, plural cephalotripsies)

  1. The act or operation of crushing the head of a dead foetus in the womb in order to ease its extraction from the womb.
    Synonyms:
    cranioclasm

cephalotripsy meaning in Tamil

cephalotripsy in Tamil

மகவுத்தலை நொறுக்கல்

Synonyms of cephalotripsy

Forms of cephalotripsy

pluralcephalotripsies

Origin of cephalotripsy

From cephalo- + -tripsy, from τρῖψις (trîpsis, “rubbing”) + -y.

Questions about cephalotripsy

What does cephalotripsy mean?
Cephalotripsy means the act or operation of crushing the head of a dead foetus in the womb in order to ease its extraction from the womb.
What is cephalotripsy in Tamil?
Cephalotripsy in Tamil is மகவுத்தலை நொறுக்கல். See Cephalotripsy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cephalotripsy?
Cephalotripsy is a noun.
What is the plural of cephalotripsy?
The plural of cephalotripsy is cephalotripsies.

Words near cephalotripsy in the dictionary

  1. cephalotoxin
  2. cephalotoxins
  3. cephalotribe
  4. cephalotribes
  5. cephalotripsies
  6. cephalotripsy
  7. cephalotrophic
  8. cephalotropic
  9. cephalotropism
  10. cephalotropisms
  11. cephalous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cephalotripsy (page history and authors); cephalotripsy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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