Cephaloclast

Translation of "cephaloclast" into Russian

Noun

cephaloclast

cephaloclasts pl

Medical term; instrument name, countable.

краниотриб

Исторический акушерский инструмент для дробления черепа плода

The obstetrician resorted to a cephaloclast when the fetus could not pass through the pelvis.

Акушер прибегнул к краниотрибу, когда плод не мог пройти через таз.

Additional translations

цефалокласт

Транслитерация английского термина; реже употребляется

Noun

An obsolete obstetric instrument used to crush the skull of a fetus to facilitate delivery when natural birth is impossible.

In nineteenth-century obstetrics, the cephaloclast was sometimes employed to reduce the size of an obstructed fetal head.