Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A surgical procedure to pulverize stones in the urinary bladder or urethra so that they can be passed out of the body in the urine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder by means of an instrument called a lithotrite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder or urethrea into small pieces capable of being voided; lithotripsy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery The
operation of breaking astone in thebladder into small pieces capable of beingvoided .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is like strabismus, chloroform, lithotrity, a heap of monstrosities that the Government ought to prohibit.
Madame Bovary 2003
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He also tells me that he performs no operation of lithotrity without the use of similar injections.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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Dieu_ hospital in Paris, his attention is said to have been attracted to the subject of his future discovery; and, after many years of perseverance, he succeeded in perfecting and introducing to the profession his new operation of lithotrity.
Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. Civiale Remedial Agency
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Nor must we forget to hint at the discoveries which have given new effect to surgical skill -- the discovery of anaesthetics, the perfection of artificial limbs, the repair of the body, and the valuable method of lithotrity; while even the match need not be disdained as one of the chief inventions of the century.
The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle
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He also tells me that he performs no operation of lithotrity without the use of similar injections.
On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases 1909
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An older issue of The Lancet contains an account of lithotrity performed on the same patient 48 times.
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An older issue of The Lancet contains an account of lithotrity performed on the same patient 48 times.
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Probably in most cases it should be superseded by lithotrity.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874
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Van Buren, Weir, and Stevenson only five died, or 3.33 per cent., while of 1470 cases of lithotrity, as formerly practised, 159, or
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners Joseph Bell 1874
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It is like strabismus, chloroform, lithotrity, a heap of monstrosities that the Government ought to prohibit.
Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Gustave Flaubert 1850
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