fracture of the skull, like a cornice
fracture of the skull, such that one piece slips under the bone like a cornice, Heliod. ap. Orib. 46.15.1, Sor. Fract. 5, Gal. 14.782.
The corpus record
ἐγγείσωμα
eggeisoma · τό
fracture of the skull
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