lithotomy

American  

[li-thot-uh-mee] / lɪˈθɒt ə mi /

noun

plural

lithotomies

1. surgery to remove one or more stones from an organ or duct.

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lithotomy British  

/ ˌlɪθəˈtɒmɪk, lɪˈθɒtəmɪ /

noun

1. the surgical removal of a calculus, esp one in the urinary bladder

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Other Word Forms

• lithotomic adjective
• lithotomical adjective
• lithotomist noun

Etymology

Origin of lithotomy

1715–25; < Late Latin lithotomia < Greek lithotomía. See litho-, -tomy

Example Sentences

William Clifford Hogg, 55, Texas oil operator, son of the late Governor James Stephen Hogg, brother of Michael, Thomas and Ima Hogg*; after a lithotomy, at Baden-Baden, Germany.

From Time Magazine Archive

It boldly reported on a bungled lithotomy by Bransby Cooper, nephew of famed Surgeon Sir Astley Cooper.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer

Among these improvements may be mentioned new operations, for lithotomy, instruments for crushing calculi, for reducing dislocations, etc.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William

He stickles at nothing, from simple phlebotomy, As our friend Sidney said, to a case of lithotomy: And I'll venture to say, that this latest specific, When taken, will prove to be no soporific.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various