Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In surgery, incision of the gall-bladder, as for the purpose of removing gallstones.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery The
operation of making anopening in thegall bladder , as when removing agallstone .
Etymologies
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cholecystis + Ancient Greek to cut.
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Examples
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So just go down and get get yerself a seat that will not give you a cholecystotomy, and suck it in as far as you can.
Working for the Clampdown: The Importance of Word Choice BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Gallenwegen (A hundred operations on the bile ducts): this improved earlier surgical treatment of gall stones and simplified them in the form of ideal cholecystotomy.
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