1.   In the surgery, doctors open the skull behind the ear and use a tiny Teflon cushion to keep blood vessels away from the nerve.

2.   The brain swelling from the hemorrhage had receded, but my doctors needed to open my skull and remove the affected tissue and residual debris.

3.   There is no need to open the skull, and the patient goes home and resumes normal activities the next day.

4.   With only the head of the fetus remaining in utero, the abortionist tears open the skull.

5.   In the past, the court said, medical staff had ordered Christian office workers to open skulls.

6.   This skull was probably opened for therapeutic reasons, and the man survived.