Usually means: Failure of the skull to close.
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  3. cranioschisis: Dictionary.com
  4. Cranioschisis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. cranioschisis: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (cranioschisis)

noun:  A developmental birth defect in which the cranium fails to close completely, so that the brain is exposed to the amnios and eventually degenerates, causing anencephaly.

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