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Nervous

craniotomy

kray-nee-OT-oh-mee

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Definition

Surgical incision into the skull

ProcedureNervous

Breakdown

Root

crani/o

skull

Suffix

-tomy

incision

Etymology

Greek: crani/o (skull) + -tomy (incision)

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