Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Surgical removal of a stone or stones from the urinary tract.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.
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- noun A surgical method for removal of
calculi , (bolily stones formed inside certain hollow organs) suchkidney stones andgallstones .
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- noun surgical removal of a stone (calculus)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Percutaneous Nephrostolithotomy (PCNL) Percutaneous (i.e., through the skin) removal of kidney stones (lithotomy) is accomplished by the surgeon threading various catheters over the guidewires into the kidney and manipulates surgical instruments through the catheters to fragment and remove kidney stones.
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I wonder, would Iva's condition improve if you performed s lithotomy on him or her?
I just got two of these, from different students. Angry Professor 2008
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The lithotomy position with the legs in stirrups was experienced as less comfortable and more painful and restricted in movement.
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Routine use of lithotomy position with or without stirrups during labour (4.6).
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The delivery room is usually equipped with large bright lamps, instruments and a delivery bed fitted lithotomy poles and stirrups or metal gutters.
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(Figure 108) · Place the patient in lithotomy, position the sterile drapes, clean the perineum and vagina with polyvidone iodine (see table page 7), give general anesthesia.
Chapter 7 1989
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· Patient in lithotomy position, general anesthetic, clean the vagina with antiseptic, and wear sterile gloves.
Chapter 7 1989
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There will always be some new sophisticated medical equipment such as the one for extracorporeal lithotomy, or the accelerator we have acquired that will be set up at the
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Not less than fifty chapters are devoted to a comparatively full discussion of wounds, fractures and dislocations, lithotomy, herniotomy, fistulae and the various diseases on the border line between medicine and surgery.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Rather curiously and suggestively no mention is made in this immediate connection of the technique of lithotomy.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
chained_bear commented on the word lithotomy
"...instruments, specimens, books, the unfinished manuscript of a work in lithotomy, a large number of old letters and used envelopes..."
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 35
March 16, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word lithotomy
The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder. --Century Dictionary. "Cutting for stone in the bladder?" I've seen stone-cutter's tools.
April 14, 2011