HEAD-MOULD-SHOT, a disease in children, wherein the sutures of the skull, generally the coronal, ride; that is, have their edges that one over 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 division of the sutures.
The head-mould-shot is the disorder opposite to the horse-thoe head.