Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Pulverization of kidney stones or gallstones by means of a lithotripter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
lithotrity .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder or urethra to reduce it to particles small enough to be voided; lithotrity. It may be performed with an instrument called
lithotriptor orlithotrite (also called a lithoclast); or, more recently, may be accomplished by devices using ultrasonic waves to fragment the stones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery The breaking-up of
kidney stones or similarcalculi by means ofultrasound
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Nowadays, through a process called lithotripsy, they can send high-energy shock waves into the body to dissolve those stones without the risks associated with invasive surgery.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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Nowadays, through a process called lithotripsy, they can send high-energy shock waves into the body to dissolve those stones without the risks associated with invasive surgery.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
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It's the same technology used since the 1980s to blast kidney stones, an application called lithotripsy, but for foot problems doctors use less intense shock waves.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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It's the same technology used since the 1980s to blast kidney stones, an application called lithotripsy, but for foot problems doctors use less intense shock waves.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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It's the same technology used since the 1980s to blast kidney stones, an application called lithotripsy, but for foot problems doctors use less intense shock waves.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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It's the same technology used since the 1980s to blast kidney stones, an application called lithotripsy, but for foot problems doctors use less intense shock waves.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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It's the same technology used since the 1980s to blast kidney stones, an application called lithotripsy, but for foot problems doctors use less intense shock waves.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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It's the same technology used since the 1980s to blast kidney stones, an application called lithotripsy, but for foot problems doctors use less intense shock waves.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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It's the same technology used since the 1980s to blast kidney stones, an application called lithotripsy, but for foot problems doctors use less intense shock waves.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Physicians now use wave technology to penetrate patients’ bodies from a distance and dissolve kidney stones a procedure called lithotripsy, whereas just a few years ago surgeons needed to cut open the patient to gain access to the kidneys.
Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011
treeseed commented on the word lithotripsy
Lithotripsy is a surgical procedure that attempts to break up a kidney stone or a stone in the gallbladder with minimal collateral damage by using an externally applied, focused, high-intensity acoustic pulse.
The scientific name of this procedure is Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL).
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February 4, 2008