cystotomy
Britishnoun
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surgical incision into the gall bladder or urinary bladder
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surgical incision into the capsule of the lens of the eye
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Lanfranc's discussion of cystotomy, Pagel characterizes "as prudent, yet rational," for he considers that the operation should not be feared too much nor delayed too long.
From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by James J. Walsh
In such a case a cystotomy would be indicated were the bullet discovered in the viscus.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
The Ephemerides contains an account of a case in which cystotomy was repeated four times, and there is another record of this operation having been done five times on a man.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Tulpius, Walther, and the Ephemerides each report an instance of self-performed cystotomy.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
As a catheter would not pass, he was placed in a warm bath, and shortly after passed a Mauser bullet per urethram, and thus saved himself a cystotomy.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
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