lithoclastn.
/ˈlɪθəklɑːst//ˈlɪθəklast/ΚΠ
a1817 J. L. Burckhardt Trav. Arabia (1829) I. 307 A party of horsemen..were ready..to assist the lithoclast, as soon as he should have executed his task.
2. Surgery. An instrument for breaking up stone in the bladder.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > instruments used in lithotomy or lithotripsy
stone-drawer1598
itinerary1689
itinerarium1706
litholabon1731
lithotome1739
lithotriptor1825
lithotritor1828
shell-breaker1830
lithotrite1839
litholabe1846
cystotome1847
lithoclast1847
finger-director1860
lithotripter1982
1847 J. F. South tr. J. M. Chelius Syst. Surg. II. 560 The perforating instruments..have been set aside by Jacobson's lithoclast.
1882 H. Thompson Dis. Urinary Organs (ed. 6) xii. 81 Urethral lithoclasts.
Derivatives
lithoˈclastic adj. pertaining to the lithoclast or to lithoclasty.
ˈlithoclasty n. [compare French lithoclastie] ‘the reduction of a vesical calculus into fragments by the aid of the lithoclast’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1889).
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