Category: C

A device for making graphs of the skull.  

An X-linked disorder characterized by malformation of the cranial suture of the skull. Girls born with this disorder are more severely affected than boys, i.e., they are more likely to have dysmorphic facial and cranial features.  

Concerning the head and face.  

A congenitally deformed fetus with two heads.  

A congenital condition that involves defective ossification of the bones of the head and face and of the clavicles.  

Crushing the skull of a dead fetus to enable vaginal delivery when the disparity between the diameters of the fetal head and maternal pelvis prohibit descent.  

An instrument for crushing the fetal skull to facilitate delivery.  

Crushing of the fetal head to permit delivery.  

Louder, rather long, low-pitched lung sounds. Coarse inspiratory and expiratory crackles indicate excessive airway secretion.  

An adventitious lung sound heard on auscultation of the chest, produced by air passing over retained airway secretions or the sudden opening of collapsed airways. It may be heard on inspiration or expiration. A crackle is a discontinuous adventitious lung sound as opposed to a wheeze, which is continuous. Crackles are described as fine or…