Usually means: Crushing fetal head during childbirth.
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  1. cephalotripsy: Wordnik
  2. cephalotripsy: Wiktionary
  3. Cephalotripsy: Dictionary.com
  4. Cephalotripsy (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Cephalotripsy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. cephalotripsy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Cephalotripsy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. cephalotripsy: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Cephalotripsy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (cephalotripsy)

noun:  (medicine) The act or operation of crushing the head of a dead foetus in the womb in order to ease its extraction from the womb.

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