lithotomy
Americannoun
plural
lithotomiesnoun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of lithotomy
1715–25; < Late Latin lithotomia < Greek lithotomía. See litho-, -tomy
Example Sentences
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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
He was the first surgeon to perform the suprapubic lithotomy operation—the removal of stone through the abdomen instead of through the perineum.
From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith
He performed lithotomy thirty-two times without a death.
From Pioneer Surgery in Kentucky A Sketch by Yandell, David Wendel
Rather curiously and suggestively no mention is made in this immediate connection of the technique of lithotomy.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer
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