And what we're talking about here is a procedure known as a craniotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2006] Reference

That was after the emergency craniotomy to release pressure on his brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob: Burned in Combat - Family of War Series] Reference

As a result of the craniotomy, the slope of my head resembled Mount Rainier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hope Unseen] Reference

It was, in fact, his first solo craniotomy, and he was nervous as a caged cat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference

The craniotomy had allowed my brain to swell and recede without severe damage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hope Unseen] Reference

No matter what he tried, he couldn't fit the plate of bone back over the craniotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference

"He performed a frontal craniotomy It looks like Thomas Pierce is practicing medicine again.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cat & Mouse]

It's been top of mind for me, so to speak, because this is the third anniversary of my craniotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part III: Second Thoughts About Multitasking] Reference

CLINTON: I believe one -- one patient had surgery on their head, a craniotomy, and three had abdominal surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2007] Reference

He performed a craniotomy -- craniotomies on a couple of patients, and evacuated hematoma (ph) or a blood clot.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 18, 2003] Reference

To guard against the potentially fatal implications of untreated swelling, the doctors next executed a craniotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hope Unseen] Reference

You've got to cut, obviously, some bone in the skull to get to the brain, known as, what is that, craniotomy, right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 20, 2008] Reference

In addition to the loss of my left eye and the craniotomy, the right side of my body had been paralyzed by the blast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hope Unseen] Reference

Someone needs to give Mr. Dithers a rectal craniotomy and acquaint him with that most foreign of concepts "leadership".    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace, order and good government, eh?: March 2005 Archives] Reference

I departed Iraq eight hours, one craniotomy, and an extracted left eyeball after I had arrived at the hospital in Balad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hope Unseen] Reference

First doctors perform a craniotomy, that's removing a section of bones so that surgeons can access the boys 'shared veins.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2004] Reference

A dear friend connected me with Massachusetts General Hospital, a wonderful care center, where I had a craniotomy that July.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part I: My World Turned Upside Down] Reference

He had air that went into his -- back into his ventricles and had to go back in, the doctor had to go back in and do another craniotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Good Fight] Reference

They also performed a craniotomy cutting a window into the boys 'shared skull to figure out how tightly merged the two brains really are.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2003] Reference

Through the skull, in a procedure called a craniotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Blog] Reference

"After your craniotomy, did you experience any epiphany?".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

A subsequent craniotomy was performed to treat the aneurism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boston Weather, Breaking News and Sports from WBZ-TV] Reference

Barnes, the ablest and most conservative defender of craniotomy, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence] Reference

With a craniotomy there is a very high chance of having a severe stroke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football.co.uk news feed] Reference

I was given two choices: coiling to break the aneurysm up or a full craniotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football.co.uk news feed] Reference

Nunez underwent an emergency craniotomy and stayed in the hospital for five days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centredaily.com: Local] Reference

This kind of procedure requires a craniotomy, a surgical incision into the skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Livescience.com] Reference

He had a craniotomy, where surgeons remove part of the skull and cut out the cancer.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Doctor to respect the life of the unborn child, thus forbidding craniotomy and abortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence] Reference

During the procedure, electrodes were placed outside the dura, through a small craniotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [About.com Depression] Reference

Sundaresa said some bone fragments and brain tissue were removed during the tricky craniotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [NY Post: News] Reference

Bacterial meningitis occurs in approximately 0.8 to 1.5% of individuals undergoing craniotomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Documenting Reality] Reference

Now the maxims of common law relating to craniotomy, the statutes in conformity therewith, as well as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence] Reference

Blankenship was rushed in for an emergency craniotomy, a procedure that cuts open the patient's skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [10News.com - Local News] Reference

A craniotomy (6×6 mm) was performed over the primary visual cortex (area 17 / 18, Horsley-Clarke coordinates P0-P6; L0-L6).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

She had been thirty-six hours in parturition, and by evisceration and craniotomy was delivered of a child weighing 16 pounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

The legitimate aspiration and tendency of science is to eliminate craniotomy on the living and viable child from obstetric practice. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence] Reference

Society, a lecture on the moral aspects of craniotomy and abortion, of which a considerable portion is very much to our present purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence] Reference