Craniotabes
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌkɹeɪ.ni.əʊˈteɪ.biːz/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Craniotabes is a noun meaning (medicine) The medical finding of a softening or thinning of the skull.
Meaning
(medicine) The medical finding of a softening or thinning of the skull.
Example Sentences
Palpate the scalp firmly above and behind the ears to detect craniotabes, a softening of the outer table of the skull.
The greater number of cases of acquired rickets develop in the first half year (often in the first three months), with softness of the occiput which Elsässer has well defined as craniotabes.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tapeinocephaly, tablature, craniostosis, turribrachycephaly, craniotopography, cranioscopy.
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