See Also: cephalotomy(medicine)

calk (iou) and cephalotomy (medicine)


calk (iou)



calk verb2 trans. M17.
[French calquer to copy, trace from Italian calcare from Latin calcare to tread.]
Copy (a design etc.) by colouring the back and following its lines so as to trace them on to a surface placed beneath.

cephalotomy (medicine)


cephalotomy
<procedure> Formerly used operation of cutting into the head of the foetus.