释义 |
lithotrity|lɪˈθɒtrɪtɪ| [Formed after lithotritor, by substitution of suffix: see -y.] The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder by means of a lithotrite.
1830tr. Baron Heurteloup (title) Cases of Lithotrity or Examples of the Stone cured without incision. a1862Sir B. Brodie Autobiog. (1865) 144 After the year 1835..I scarcely ever had recourse to lithotomy at all, substituting for it that of lithotrity. 1878Walsham Surg. Pathol. 396 The operations of lithotomy, lithotrity, and puncture. attrib.1860N. Syd. Soc. Year-bk. Med. 295 Statistical Analysis of twenty-one Lithotrity Operations. |