enthlasis

English

Noun

enthlasis (uncountable)

1. (medicine, rare) A depressed fracture of the skull.
   • 2016 June 11, S. M. Slepchenko, “Ante Mortem Cranial Trepanation in the Late Bronze Age in Western Siberia”, in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology:

     Instead, enthlasis, either open or closed, may have been the reason for this trepanation.