lithotrity
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Origin of lithotrity
1820–30; litho- + Latin trīt ( us ) (past participle of terere to rub, grind, crush) + -y 3
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Sir B. C., on lithotomy, 262.on lithotrity, 274.Bromfield, amputation of leg, 86.Brown,
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
An older issue of The Lancet contains an account of lithotrity performed on the same patient 48 times.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
Lithothryp′tist, Lith′othryptor, Lithotrip′tist, Lith′otriptor, Lith′otritist, one who practises lithotrity; Lith′othrypty; Lith′otrite, Lith′otritor, an apparatus for crushing a stone in the bladder.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
On another occasion, it seemed to me strange that we should be obliged to open the bladder of patients suffering from the stone, or to subject them to lithotrity, which has also its perils.
From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?
His operation of rapid lithotrity has deprived a painful disease of much of its terror as well as of its danger.
From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.
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