Word Meanings - CRANIOTOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.

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• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• FETAL
  Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.
• OPEN
  1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
• OPEN-MOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• OPERATION
  Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols. (more info) 1. The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
• EFFECTOR
  An effecter. Derham.
• EFFECTUATE
  To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.
• OPENLY
  1. In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy. How grossly and openly do many of us contradict the precepts of the gospel by our ungodliness! Tillotson. 2. Without reserve or disguise; plainly; evidently. My love . . . shall show
• EFFECTION
  Creation; a doing. Sir M. Hale.
• OPEN-HEARTH STEEL
  See OPEN
• EFFECTLESS
  Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv.
• ORDERLINESS
  The state or quality of being orderly.
• EFFECTER
  One who effects.
• OPENER
  One who, or that which, opens. "True opener of my eyes." Milton.
• ORDER
  1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: Of material things, like the books in a library. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. Of periods of time or
• OPENWORK
  A quarry; an open cut. Raymond. (more info) 1. Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.
• OPEN DOOR
  Open or free admission to all; hospitable welcome; free opportunity. She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind. Lowell. In modern diplomacy, opportunity for political and commercial intercourse open to all upon
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• SCOLOPENDRINE
  Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.
• TWOPENNY
  Of the value of twopence.
• PROPENSION
  The quality or state of being propense; propensity. M. Arnold. Your full consent Gave wings to my propension. Shak.
• COPENHAGEN
  A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs. 2. A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.
• INEFFECTIVE
  Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.