HEAD-MOULD-SHOT, a disease in children, wherein the futures of the skull, generally the coronal, ride; that is, have their edges shot over one another; and are so close locked together, as to compress the internal parts, the meninges, or even the brain itself. The disease usually occasions convulsions, and is supposed to admit of no cure from medicine, unless room could be given by manual operation or a divulsion of the futures.
The head-mould-shot is the disorder opposite to the horse-shoe-head.