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

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

This being fairly in the stricture, the patient is put in the position for lithotomy, an assistant holds the staff in his right hand, drawing up the scrotum with his left.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph

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