Home › Words › V › ventriculostomyventriculostomyventriculostomy means A neurosurgical procedure that involves creating a hole within a cerebral ventricle for drainage.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, ventriculostomy ranks #16,730 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom ventriculo- + -stomy.nounA neurosurgical procedure that involves creating a hole within a cerebral ventricle for drainage.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).