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Passage of a hollow needle or trocar and cannula into the brain to drain or aspirate an abscess or the fluid of a hydrocephalus.
Origin: cephalo-+ G. Kentesis, puncture
(05 Mar 2000)
cephalo-, cephalocaudal, cephalocaudal axis, cephalocele < Prev | Next > cephalochord, cephalodidymus, cephalodiprosopus
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