Definitions for lithotomy

lithotomy li·thot·o·my

Spelling: [li-thot-uh-mee]
IPA: /lɪˈθɒt ə mi/

Lithotomy is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 175 anagrams from letters in lithotomy (hilmootty).

Definitions for lithotomy

noun

  1. surgery to remove one or more stones from an organ or duct.

Origin of lithotomy

1715-25; Late Latin lithotomia Greek lithotomía. See litho-, -tomy

Examples for lithotomy

lithotomy cost 51 marks, or half of that if the patient died.

The work of lithotomy is not any longer regarded with the dread which formerly attended it.

The etherized patient, his bladder having been emptied, should be placed in the lithotomy position.

The patient is placed in the lithotomy position and the various antiseptic precautions already described are carried out.

This description of the diagnosis of stone and of the operation of lithotomy is copied almost literally from Roger of Parma.

The patient must be tied up in lithotomy position on a table in the very best light that can be obtained.

Also was advised the extraction of diseased teeth; and the operation of lithotomy was described with considerable care.

The patient is in the lithotomy position, the speculum is passed and the cervix pulled down by a tenaculum.

Rather curiously and suggestively no mention is made in this immediate connection of the technique of lithotomy.

The patient is ansthetized and placed in the lithotomy position with the legs supported by a crutch.

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