kapAlamocanI
kapāla-mocanī (once kapālī° ) vidyā, a prized aspect of surgical art: MSV ii.26.6 (here kapālī°), 7, 9; 30.17 ff. ; it involves opening a manʼs skull and extracting an insect (prāṇaka), which caused a disease (kapāla-vyādhi, 30.18 ), see 31.6 ff. , also 33.12 (a centipede is thus removed).